Thos. Friedman is very cunning at sophistry like this. He imagines himself a master of Realpolitik. Pretending Trump is helping defeat ISIS for free! Very witty.

Syria and Russia DO NOT want the US in there meddling, with their "plan C" which is, since Russia stopped ISIS from destroying Syria outright, the US is going to use the Kurds to break it in pieces.
ISIS was created by the US in Iraq, when they created Sunni and Shiite death squads to carry out ethnic cleansing, as you know if you've read the book "ISIS IS US."
Friedman also blabs about "moderate rebels in Idlib." Al Nusra are moderates?
There are no moderate rebels. Least of all in Idlib. Watch ex ambassador to Syria Peter Ford explain what kind of depraved crazies are running the show in Idlib, along with the Oscar winning White Helmets false flag terrorist outfit created by the UK. https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Peter_Ford
Peter Ford on RT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZuaJ_Arqfg 8:03
‘Dog returns to its own vomit: We forgot lesson of Iraq’ - Ford on US strike
Excerpt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8HnPwGsdsA 3:35
Excellent 24" interview Ford with Press TV covers the Syria ground very well (Jan 2017)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZlAdpFZrqw

April 12

Sean Spicer is on a roll ! This guy is some kind of Truther!

First he says, "The goal for the United States is ... to make sure we destabilize Syria." Right on.

Then he says dropping CW on kids in Idlib is a historical nadir, the lowest you can go. Right again, although he leaves out two points. One, that it was Al Nusra, ISIS, the White Helmets who were gassing people, and they have been paid to do this by the US, UK, KSA and the rest. And two, the duplicity which makes it doubly heinous, that this was done as a false flag to provoke even more suffering, even the destruction of the entire Syrian nation, if not the Middle East.

Spicer: “We didn’t use chemical weapons in World War II. You know, you had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.”
So ﻿here we have ﻿the most despicable people in history, those who do sink to bombing civilians and children with CW -- ISIS, Al Nusra, the "White Helmets," their creators, funders and media whores in the US and the UK, the Saudis, Qatar, ﻿the Deep State ﻿and the rest of the war criminals.

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come. There is always a new low that they can sink to! The Guinness Record Book people will always have something for their latest edition.

Tweet it: Spicer got it right - humanity never sank so low as USA, UK, & ISIS to drop CW on kids as a false flag & provoke more murder of innocents

And the President of the United States had no intel on it?
“The coalition is concerned about ISIL’s use of chemical weapons,” Col. John Dorrian, a military spokesman in Iraq, said. “ISIL has used them in Iraq and Syria in the past, and we expect them to continue employing these types of weapons.”

Trump had to know the CW attack in Khan Shaykhun was a false flag. In 2013, the Daily Mail reported that Washington had approved a plot to spirit a CW shell into Homs, Syria to be blamed on Assad. Seymour Hersh also revealed that the Ghouta CW attacks, which nearly led to US airstrikes, were mounted by the rebels. The terrorists have frequently tried to blame small CW false flag actions on Assad, and it's routine by now. It's well known the White Helmets who help them with this are a Soros-British intel operation, Syrian Girl Partisan writes.

Trump has to know this stuff - or his staff will tell him. Robert Parry reports that an inside source told him the president's advisers were split, some of them avoiding caution about jumping to conclusions. Trump jumped.

Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, a Jewish real estate developer married to Ivanka Trump, has increasingly taken charge in the White House. The airstrikes occurred just after the demotion of Steve Bannon, who was loyal to the Trump election campaign theme, "concentrate on fighting ISIS, not Assad."

Liberal and progressive Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are doing their bit to get us to hold our noses and vote for Hillary. I also once said I'd never vote for a Republican again, after George Bush went in to destroy Iraq and Afghanistan. But life is not so simple. You can't afford to give either side your unthinking support.

The brouhaha around Hillary’s use of a private email server is the usual fuss over trivia. The real scandal is the contents of those emails. They showed her as the chief instigator of the Libya genocide that turned Africa's most shining success story into a failed, jihadist warlord state.

Worse still, Hillary is utterly unrepentant. She wants more! Escalate the war of terror on Syria, seek confrontation with Russia and Iran, and run the risk of WW3 -- to save terrorist groups like Al Nusra!?

Short answer: If you don't support terrorism, don't support Hillary Clinton.
The crux of the problem: Hillary is not an imperfect Democrat, she is a perfect Neo-Con.

Mrs. Clinton was Secretary of State when the Libya and Syria calamities began, from Jan. 2009 through Jan. 2013. It's true that ISIS in Iraq was fostered by the Bush regime starting in 2004. The Clinton-Obama project to destroy Libya and Syria was a direct outgrowth of that, as shown by Michel Chossudovsky in The Globalization of War.

In the book ISIS IS US: The Shocking Truth Behind the Army of Terror, we tell where Hillary's Libyan terrorists went next: to Syria, to start the war there. Mercenaries, extremists and criminals from all over were paid to set up a barbaric "Islamic State" -- to murder, rape, pillage -- and make refugees out of millions of families.

It's the same neo-con nastiness. So a vote for Hillary is like a vote for Bush. Of course, one accepts shortcomings when a candidate has redeeming qualities. I don't see any such redemption with Hillary.

With Clinton Cash and Pay to Play, Hillary is a party hack for special interests. So even on domestic issues, we could well be better off with Trump. The Clintons made their millions from corrupt politics, while Trump is spending from his own self-made fortune to run for office. We can at least hope that he might be doing this to serve his country.

Hillary Clinton has put a nuclear first strike against Russia on the table. For what? To enforce total hegemony by the New World Order? To keep America in the terror business?

A curious diplomatic spectacle is playing out, as the imperial senate tussles over how hot to make it for the Saudis, and how close to hold the vassal sheikhs' feet to the fire.

Once again we are shown how weak and vulnerable is the position of terrorist patsy, whether it be an individual or a nation state.

The Saudis clearly had no real, operative connection to 9/11. Bandar Bush merely obliged the real plotters by providing patsies, or at least identity thefts of alleged hijacker identities. To review:

We have no reason to believe there were any real hijackers on 9/11. The best evidence points to their fictitious if necessary role in the official conspiracy narrative. We know that WTC 1, 2 and 7 were brought down by controlled demolition, that there was no plane in the hole at Shanksville, and that the Pentagon was hit by a missile. So what would hijackers be for? There were no Arab names on the passenger lists. No hijacker could fly the planes as reported. In fact, the Boeing 767 itself cannot even fly at cruising speed at low altitudes, and cell phones can't connect at speeds over 155 mph[1]. Anyway, a false flag substituting a drone for a passenger airliner was already on the drawing boards in 1962, Operation Northwoods.

We know 9/11 was a false flag of the type using innocent patsies and high-tech explosives, along with pretty much all the world's other politically high-profile bombings of recent times.

Saudi Arabia is also being strung up now for helping finance the founding of Al Qaeda to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. Of course they were invited to do this by the US, and being staunchly anti-communist, and eager to spread their doctrine, they obliged whole-heartedly.

Interestingly, the Saudi retort was about money, about dumping $750 of US assets so they can't be frozen. The whole argument is presumably about money. The empire may be trying to twist arms to get a better deal to prop up the petrodollar economy. Another dream scenario for Wall Street would be a color revolution overthrowing the Saudi princes, and installing the usual post-revolutionary kleptocracy to privatize the oil wells and anything else of value on the Arabian peninsula.

Now this got me thinking about a recurring pattern: How the New World Order has supplanted older orders throughout modern history.

By an "old order" I visualize a stable society, with a coherent ethical or religious foundation, including a mission to advance the interests of the individual society, and maintain its independence. It is strongest and most stable when it has progressive leaders who invest in social capital. When good leaders are lacking, societies decline, leaving them weak and susceptible to revolutionary overthrow.

But even weak societies will not willingly let themselves be colonized, privatized and expropriated by foreigners. Therefore a two-step process is required.

First the society must be taken over by some group with native coloring who will destabilize it. It can be a dictator, or a group of extremist enthusiasts of whatever stripe: a countergang. Their energy co-opts the process of revolution or change, and leads the society into a deformation that is basically repugnant to human nature. This flaw means they are primed to be toppled sooner or later by popular unrest.

At some point, when the time is ripe, a second revolution is instigated to replace the creepy "countergang" regime with -- you guessed it, a yuppie color revolution of swarming naive enthusiasts, who unwittingly install a "leadership" of corrupt Wall Street puppets who are mandated to sell their country down the river.

Alternatively a strong nation can sometimes be induced to over-extend itself militarily, and be defeated by a coalition.

ISIS is the quintessential countergang of crazy extremists. They were initially introduced under the false banner of secular yuppie globalist color revolution, but that is the true banner of the endgame. The hope is that people will be so exhausted by the chaos and obscurantism that they will abandon national pride and accept colonialism as the lesser evil. And if they don't, they will be crushed and broken into even smaller, weaker states.

By financing ISIS for the US [see Unmasking ISIS http://www.amazon.com/Unmasking-ISIS-George-Washingtons-Blog/dp/1615771646], the Saudis and Turkey's Erdogan have tasted the same poison they have been injecting into Syria, Libya and Iraq. They are destabilizing their own regimes.

I have no sympathy for them, yet one can't help being awed by the enormity of the cruelty and cynicism of this punishment of the junior partners by the senior partners in crime. The Saudis have only done Washington's bidding. The Moors have done their duty, the Moors may be thrown under the bus.

The Saudis can't blow the whistle on 9/11 truth, it would expose their complicity in this darkest of zionist conspiracies, and officially, no one will believe them, the media would lampoon them mercilessly. They are cornered. Might be a good time to take the $750 billion and run. But where?

The book is out! ISIS IS US: The Shocking Truth Behind the Army of Terror. At least in Kindle format so far. Working on getting paperback ready, at least advance copies for reviewers. May be on sale in January too.

Sept. 18

We are planning a book on how ISIS is a covert operation and creation of the US, its allies,vassals, and special forces.

These insights on the situation in Syria were contributed by our correspondent on the ground in Damascus:

Sept. 16
ISIS is the best game of the US, it’s the secret arm of its destruction in the middle east, and you can see the Arab Spring results starting from Tunisia to Libya and now Syria.
The Engineer of ISIS is Erdogan but the real Khalifate of ISIS is OBAMA
He is the God father of ISIS and Al-Qaeda and other babies.
What is wanted in Syria is not to change ASSAD now. No, they want to destroy first the land and the manpower, its a matter of 50 years of Rage, Syria was seriously threatening Israel in the last decade.
That’s why they opened the borders in Europe: to empty the manpower and minds and soldiers, because they couldn’t weaken the army, but the Russian Bear was awake this time, and sent huge forces to the shore of Syria, armed with the UN resolution to fight ISIS as much as they can
Russia now enters Syria legally, and Russia made an agreement with ASSAD and with Iran to strike ISIS and clean Syria, and they will. USA knows very carefully that Russia can clean Syria of ISIS, that is why OBAMA is so worried by the Russian forces on the Syrian land.
Sept. 18
The political issues now have started a struggle inside of the Gov.
It seemed like it’s another face of the war but this time its an interior war, economic and social war. Now everyone is fighting everyone. It’s a big mess here in the political fields.
Even the retail prices are controlled now by secret merchants who are related with the decision makers in the gov.
The remaining citizens are like the lambs among wolfs
This is beside the gangs from both sides. The regime gangs and the free army gangs.
All of them are stealing, robbing, kidnapping , etc...
Now the must is to set up an order, rules, a safety system for the people.
This is why people are leaving Syria as refugees.
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Aug. 4

Putin threatens to cut off diplomatic relations with Turkey for its support of Saudi-backed ISIS terrorists. www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php Summons Turkish ambassador and tells him he will make Syria a Stalingrad for Erdogan who is no less vicious than Hitler. Kick the dog Erdogan again. Thanks to Webster Tarpley for the link.

July 28 US war party announces air support to protect ISIS supply lines against Kurds

Another step towards Libyanization of Syria war, as USIS (ISIS Czar Gen John Allen) declares no-fly zone in Northern Syria. Er-Dog-An and Pentagon in unholy alliance against Kurds and Syrians. us6.campaign-archive2.com/Update July 29: Obama faction strikes back by appointing new Syria envoy Ratner us6.campaign-archive1.com/ Update July 30 Erdogan's children have close ties to ISIS us6.campaign-archive2.com/ His daughter runs a secret hospital for takfiri terrorist while the son export the oil they plunder.

July 22. Not so cheap by the dozen

The US has spent half a $ billion $ to "train" 5 dozen "moderate Syrian rebels" to "fight" ISIS. Why? Were there only 60 "moderate rebels" to be found in the whole republic of Syria? Or did half the funds go to covert channels of funding for ISIS, while the other half went to make it look like they're fighting ISIS? www.military.com/daily-news/2015/07/07/500m-us-program-has-only-trained-60-syrians-to-fight-isis.html Or just most of the money went into funny pockets? Or perhaps it was to underscore the bankruptcy of the "moderate rebel" meme, for those who didn't get it from the start.

What would it cost to build a house for each of these 60 "moderate rebels?" Do the math, I can't. Anyway it's cheaper to bomb houses than build them, so who cares.

July 17

Eid Greetings.

Exclusive scoop on the covert US support for ISIS - a US spy has been caught by Turkish police on the Syrian border, carrying gold bars and electronic equipment for the terrorists. This report was picked up by Azar Mirza Beg, author of In Search of the Truth: An Exposure of the Conspiracy, from a Turkish newspaper. The story has been completely buried by Western media, even the socalled alternative media. The man, Karsten Richard Persson, an ex-Marine, claimed he got the money from an inheritance, and came to Turkey to study Islam. On June 26th he was arrested by Turkish police on the border with 2.5 kg of gold bars in a luxury car he had rented on arriving at Istanbul airport on June 20. One interesting aspect of the story is that it has been completely hushed up in the Western media. An internet search turns up only a brief note from the Pakistan Defense Ministry, in addition to the news article in the Turkish newspaper Takvim. I was just wishing for some more evidence to come out showing that ISIS is a US puppet front. More details to come.

May 24

Head of Russian intelligence accuses US of instigating islamic terrorism. thesaker.is/the-head-of-the-gru-accuses-us-and-allies-of-creating-the-transnational-islamist-terrorist-network/
This is the plan to defend the dollar. Create so much chaos in any country not paying dutiful tribute to the US, that capital will flow to the US as a safe haven from the mayhem. Not so different from the last century, when Wall Street financed Stalin and Hitler.
So I don't worry about the knock on the door in the night. They'll keep the semblance of freedom we have here, because it helps prop up the economy and the empire.

Apr. 27 USIS (US-Instigated Sect AKA ISIS) is on the march

A friend in Damascus reports that the top government officials are considering to move out of the capital, and the newspapers are rife with speculation about this possible evacuation. Is Damascus in danger of falling to "USIS"?

www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/ Family of "suicided" police inspector on C. Hebdo case won't be allowed to see the autopsy -- Kevin Barrett reporting on Hicham Hamza interview with Fredou's family.

Jan 20

MLK Day over here - Martin Luther King Jr. - Murdered Like KennedyWith one difference - MLK's family was able to get a court verdict confirming his murder was a government conspiracy. www.globalresearch.ca/court-decision-u-s-government-agencies-found-guilty-in-martin-luther-kings-assassination/5320024In the case of JFK, independent authors like our Guyénot and Gibson have had to prove it. Laurent Guyénot has just sent a link to an exclusive new story from France. www.panamza.com/160115-suicide-charlie-bougrab (in French.) Once again regarding a murder by government conspiracy: the killing of police inspector Helric Fredou. His family reported there was "friction" with his superiors over his report, and he was called to the station late at night. He refused to change his story, saying he had to make a phone call, then he was found dead at his desk. He left no suicide note and did not surrender his badge as is customary with police suicides in France.
The family members that Fredou was interviewing were parents of Jeanette Bougrab, a French politician and an alleged mistress of Stéphane Charbonnier, an Islamophobic cartoonist and journalist working for Charlie Hebdo and allegedly murdered in the attacks there this month.

The Enemy Within - Indeed!
Today we received something highly unusual in the mail - a free sample copy of a newsmagazine. The cover of The Week features a masked Islamic extremist with a gun sitting at a Paris café, and a young Muslim mother with a small child in tow in the background. "France and the dilemma of homegrown terrorism." Indeed! When you elect terrorist zionist Jews like Sarkozy or Hollande for President, you can expect some pretty nasty "homegrown" problems, NATOurally.
Evidently the zionist controlled media are pulling out ALL the stops, to ensure the usually insular American public don't ignore the big stunt in France. A free islamophobic rag for everyone, not just the readers of Hebdo Hate.

Paul Craig Roberts notes that
"One video compares the car in which the killers escaped with the car in which the ID ofone of the accused brothers was allegedly found and makes the point that the two cars differ...
"Another video, which seems to be part of a news report, shows a large force of police waiting as the metal screen over the deli storefront rises. This is the deli in which Amedy Coulibaly is reported to be holding hostages.
"As the metal screen rises, police fire into the deli. There seems to be no return fire, andit is unclear who the police are shooting at. Perhaps it was the heavy firing by the police that killed the hostages.
"Police enter and turn to the right. Then Coulibaly appears from the same direction as the police entered.He is in a running stumble as if he has been pushed into the line of fire. There is no weapon in his hands, which appear to be tied together. He falls or is shot down at the door in front of the police, who then fire more bullets into the downed man.
"It looks like an execution. It most certainly is not a gun fight. Coulibaly was down and could easily have been captured and questioned. Instead, we have reports of pre-recorded confessions to take the place of capture and questioning." www.lewrockwell.com/2015/01/paul-craig-roberts/european-skepticism-growing/
"If Coulibaly was incensed over cartoons drawn by French persons, why wasn’t he with the killers in the cartoonists’ office? Why pick on random patrons of a deli unrelated to the reason for the attack?"
Because they needed an extra, specifically anti-Jewish atrocity to optimize their strategy of tension. Like the anthrax on 9/11, a little added ingredient for maximum effect.

Jean-Marie Le Pen says French terror attacks were work of Western intelligence www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-attacks-jeanmarie-le-pen-says-french-terror-attacks-were-work-of-western-intelligence-9985047.html Like many others, he found it suspicious that Kouachi's ID was left to be found by police.
Why would the attackers wear masks and then leave behind their ID, if it were not staged? many are asking. And why did no organization claim the terrorist act?
Komsomolskaya Pravda quoted Le Pen in the interview saying, “The shooting at Charlie Hebdo resembles a secret service operation but we have no proof of that. I don’t think it was organised by the French authorities but they permitted this crime to be committed." In other words, Gladio, CIA, Mossad.The Independent also noted that McClatchy News Service had linked the Kouachi brothers to French intelligence.

There is no more basic factor to an analysis of the elite than their absolute dependence on Deception.
I remember as a small boy chatting with my brother about what you would do if you had all the money in the world.
We quickly decided the first thing would be to hire bodyguards, or better, a whole army, so the billions of penniless people wouldn't quickly overpower us and take it all away.
That is the heroic dictatorial model, but already in ancient times, it began to be supplemented and overshadowed by the psychological method of Deception.
Without deceptions of a myriad kinds, how could a puny elite keep an informed populace deprived of their fair share?
The false flag is only the most dramatic and quintessential and intensely effective form, but it goes on 24/7, with the dumbing down, misleading education, distraction, bread and circuses.... all meant to deceive people into acquiescing into supine obedience to a tiny minority, giving up their enormous strength of numbers and not even putting up a fight against a tiny pack of weaklings.
This is why I figure we must strike at the Achilles Heel of the elite, which is their tiny numbers, covered over by their huge dependence on lies, especially the horrid yet potent false flag tactics. By exposing the lies we may strip them of their false garb of legitimacy and leave them naked and helpless, in our power.

Jan. 16

My comment on the usurpation of Charlie Chaplin's name and goodwill by the zionist hatemongers. Zionism is essentially a form of usurpation not only of the land of Palestine, but in many other spheres.

Press TV notes the involvement of the CIA in the Charlie Hebdo massacre is all but proven now, by the link cited between the patsy Kouachi and the underwear bomber -- who was an admitted CIA asset. www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/01/13/392957/Info-confirms-CIA-link-to-Parris-attack
The Associated Press reports that Said Kouachi "claimed to have lived with the Nigerian man behind the failed al-Qaeda “underwear bomb” plot."
Cross-reference this with "US and Yemeni officials told The Associated Press in May 2012 that the so-called underwear bomber was in fact working under cover for Saudi intelligence and the CIA when he was given a new non-metallic type bomb aimed at getting past airport security."
The two patsies were from the same stable.

In spite of my qualms noted below about hoax theories, I see Gordon Duff making some interesting points indicating the shooting could have been staged. There is not enough traffic on the street for crowded Paris, and the street shown does not resemble the alleged location. Also, the bullets aren't throwing up debris when they hit the pavement the way an AK-47 round would, and the gunfire sounds like blank rounds. So then some of the 12 victims from Charlie Hebdo are undercover agents who have gone on to their next assignments? www.veteranstoday.com/2015/01/15/neo-paris-terror-the-smell-of-false-flag/

In the US, where the FBI has arrested people for planning terrorist acts, in every single case it has been found it was a sting operation, where the patsies had been recruited. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helped-along-by-the-fbi.html
What exactly the victims believed and what they were paid is not clear, but the incitation came from the agency, not from the individuals.
In the Charlie Hebdo case there is the link to Anwar al Awlaki, the chief US patsy handler, so it's the same model.
There are similarities to the 7/7 London Tube bombings where they killed the 4 patsies who had been recruited to engage in anti-terrorist drills. (See Terror on the Tube from Progressive Press.)
The fact that Kouachi's ID was "by coincidence" left at the scene is prima facie proof that he was liquidated before the operation and set up as a scapegoat.
This is the same model as the alleged hijacker's passport found at Ground Zero on 9/11.
The "suiciding" of the police inspector Helric Fredou as he was preparing his report on the affair also presents a very close parallel to other black ops of this nature. Any intelligent person can understand this.

Why people are manipulated by these lies is a matter of psychology or sociology, there is massive media impact and appeals to base emotions. It works. If we don't oppose this narrative it will work totally.
The fact that the elites are using such cynical, deeply repugnant, purely evil tactics is significant, and is a very strong argument against their "legitimacy," or rather, usurpation of power.
False flags and strategy of tension go hand in hand with fascistic repression of the interests of the people. This was the banner case of the Red Brigades who were used to A. eliminate the key left-leaning politician, Aldo Moro, and B. to discredit the Left, resulting in the marginalization of the trade union movement and the PCI, the destruction of Berlinguer's EuroCommunism. See Cottrell's Gladio www.progressivepress.com/book-listing/gladio-natos-dagger-heart-europe
But the Left is neutered by its lack of courage to defy mass media brainwashing and attack on the conspiracy issue, which is the Achilles' Heel of the monster.

Could Charlie Hebdo be a hoax? Searching the internet or twitter on Charlie Hebdo False Flag, a great many references to this theory come up. Of course anything is possible, or seems possible about events we are not direct witnesses to. But there are a couple good reasons not to believe this.
1. Why would the perpetrators bother to save lives when dead men don't talk and keeping them alive creates the problem of paying off the crisis actors? The case of the liquidation of the Navy Seal troop involved in the fake killing of Bin Laden is a case in point. Their continued existence was inconvenient.
2. All this talk about a hoax will lead people to confuse false flag with hoax. Focus on the key political concepts of a false flag, like the strategy of tension, is blurred by excessive speculation about details.
3. The average layman may find the idea of a hoax extremely outlandish, thus discrediting the solid evidence of a real murder under a false flag.

Gilad Atzmon: Spitting on crosses and Christians, spitting on mosques and Muslims, and spitting generally is not a Western value. That's why "though the first reaction to the massacre in Paris was a worldwide editorial vow to republish Hebdo’s cartoons, it took less than 36 hours for Western editorial writers to change their minds; in fact hardly anyone published this Zionist dirt." www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2015/1/12/spitting-on-other-peoples-prophets-is-not-a-western-value Charlie Hebdo "was a neocon, philo-Semitic magazine that supported Zionist wars, and was dedicated to otherize minorities and Muslims in particular, while at the same time silencing criticism of Jewish power and the American war machine. Charlie Hebdo went about acting as the Israeli cultural attaché in Paris."
If Charlie Hebdo was indeed an Israeli initiative and the massacre there was a Mossad operation, it's all of a piece. Part of the war for greater Israel, right in line with Zionist history, the Irgun bombing synagogues, the Zionist collaboration with Hitler, and so on.

Jan 13. What Jesus said about False Flags against the Innocent.
“Blessed are you when they revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely" (on account of your sincere faith).
If Jesus is right, Islam will ultimately be strengthened, and the Zionists thrown down by their own cynical crimes.

Jeff Rense makes no bones about it: It was Mossad.
Drawing by David Dees, Rense.com.

SOTT notes how the two shooters were obviously highly professional mercenaries, quoting a witness who at first thought they were SWAT commandos: "They knew exactly what they had to do and exactly where to shoot. While one kept watch and checked that the traffic was good for them, the other one delivered the final coup de grace," They then make an expert getaway, evading police and hijacking escape cars.
"The Charlie Hebdo attacks check almost every point in the false-flag handbook: early conflicting reports (2 shooters, 3 shooters), convenient evidence (ID in the getaway car), patsies with prior run-ins with police and counterintelligence (making them perfect CIs or victims of entrapment), convenient deaths (dead men tell no tales, leaving the government all too willing to fill in the blanks with their own version of events), contradictions (professional behavior vs. bungled last stand; third suspect with a perfect alibi), and of course, affiliation with known intelligence fronts." "Whether people like the Kouachis know it or not, they're working for the CIA. Mossad. NATO. MI6. And they're doing their job well." www.sott.net/article/291203-Charlie-Hebdo-Frances-9-11

It would not be the first time Mossad silenced a cartoonist by shooting him in the head. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naji_al-Ali Palestine's most famous cartoonist was murdered in London, and the chief suspect was a Mossad double agent who got off with a slap of the wrist. Image: Naji al-Ali bleeding on his own cartoons. No "Je suis Naji" for him.

Gilad Atzmon also published some thoughts about the false flag alternative on Jan. 8. www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2015/1/8/amidst-a-religious-war-in-europe-is-it-possibly-a-false-flag-operation (Once you know the pattern you recognize it immediately.)
He points out that the third Muslim "suspect", Hamyd Mourad, hearing from the media that he was accused, went peacefully to the police to tell them he had nothing to do with it. (Better idea than hiding in a boat like the Tsarnaev brother? But then the Yankee police might have killed him anyway.)
Atzmon hints that it could be an Israeli stunt: "It is quite probable that this was another false flag operation. Who could be behind it? Use your imagination..."

This affaire shows clearly the penchant of France's anglo-zionist handlers to exploit the nation's nervosité and excitability over symbolic issues. In this way they engineered the French Revolution, with follies like the fabricated scandal about the Queen's diamond necklace, or her alleged remark, "Let them eat cake." The Dreyfus affair similarly starred a magazine - a Rothschild-financed anti-semitic rag that offended French sensibilities, creating hysteria and division among the French public. Ils sont parfois fous, les Français!

Ha'aretz reports even "Russia's new Syria plan is the only game in town. Even U.S. is pinning hopes on scheme, devised with Iran, that could spearhead talks between Syrian opposition and Assad regime in Moscow." www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/.premium-1.631944 It involves power-sharing between Assad and opposition.

In what could be a turning point in the war, the Syrian Army has nearly surrounded the terrorist positions in Aleppo, threatening to cut their supply lines. www.aina.org/news/20141215154850.htm Aleppo is the commercial capital of Syria and rivals Damascus in significance.

US drops its mythical "moderate Syrian rebels" - on the cutting room floor of the Depart of Aggression Budget www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-12/syrian-rebels-see-us-abandoning-them Why bother with the "moderate" FSA anyway, when extremists are doing such a great job of smashing up Syria? If the US had wanted "moderates" in the first place -- they could have stuck with Bashir Al Assad.

"Those who have never been to Syria may find it hard to imagine that three years ago extremist groups, such as Al Qaeda and ISIL had no presence there. The idea of public beheadings on Syrian streets was unthinkable.
It is easier still to forget, that only four years ago, Libya had the highest Human Development Index of any country in Africa, that there was no Al Qaeda or ISIL in Iraq a decade ago, and that Afghanistan was a secular modern developed country with a capital that three decades ago was named ‘the jewel of Asia'.
It may be more comforting for the average westerner to imagine that these Middle Eastern nations were always barbaric backwaters in constant need of western intervention. But it is western intervention in these nations that has caused the rise of Al Qaeda and ISIL....

The real objective of the US directed intervention in Syria, is not the forcible installation of democracy, nor the protection of human rights, but the destruction of the country. Syria does not kowtow to US hegemony and has sought to have independent control over its own resources. It is one of the few countries in the Middle East that does not house military bases nor hold any loans from the IMF. Damascus opposes the US ally in the region, Israel, which occupies a part of Syria's territory. This has placed it on the so-called ‘axis of evil' list of countries to be attacked, alongside Iraq and Libya." uk.sputniknews.com/opinion/20141109/1013195499.html

Situation worsening in Syria. www.ibtimes.com/syrian-christians-face-difficult-decisions-refugee-crisis-grows-1416012 The United Nations predicts that 5.2 million Syrians -- nearly a quarter of the nation’s population -- will attempt to escape their homeland by the end of 2014 if the conflict continues unabated. The U.S., along with European nations including Sweden, Germany and Holland, recently agreed to take in a total of only about 10,000 Syrian refugees- That's only 2 tenths of 1 percent. Middle Eastern neighbors Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey have accepted the vast majority thus far.

Partisan Girl reports: PressTV journalist Serena died under mysterious circumstances a day after she was accused of spying for Iran by Turkey. She was exposing Turkey allowing terrorists to pass through Bab al Hawa border crossing. She had images of them hiding in World Food Organisation trucks. www.facebook.com/photo.php

Oct. 18

Those DAASHing young men in their flying machines -- ISIS now has an airforce of three jets, as Iraqi pilots who joined ISIS providing training Reuters Oh what a lovely. war. Is it true - or a pretext for a no fly zone that will ground Syria's own airforce?

ISIL advances on three fronts on the Kurdish city of Kobane on the Syrian-Turkish border, a genocide is feared. Airstrikes haven't stopped them. City's defenders holding off tanks with Kalashnikovs. Turkey seems in no great haste to come to Kurds' rescue.

USAF bombs refineries in Syria's oil town of Der Azzour. The US is too cowardly to fight ISIL on the ground, to stomp out ISIL with infantry, and ISIL preserve the refineries. Plus they really don't mind destroying Syria's oil industry, do they! rt.com/usa/190400-us-aircraft-target-oil-syria/

Raison d'état for war on Iraq/Syria explained in a nutshell: www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2014/09/Middle%20East%20Explained.jpg
CLEAR AS MUD. ARE you confused by what is going on in the Middle East? Let me explain.
We support the Iraqi government against the Islamic State. We don't like IS, but IS is supported by Saudi Arabia, whom we do like.
We don't like President Assad in Syria. We support the fight against him, but not IS, which is also fighting against him.
We don't like Iran, but Iran supports the Iraqi government against IS. So, some of our friends support our enemies and some of our enemies are our friends, and some of our enemies are fighting against our other enemies, whom we want to lose, but we don't want our enemies who are fighting our enemies to win.
If the people we want to defeat are defeated, they might be replaced by people we like even less. And all this was started by us invading a country to drive out terrorists who weren't actually there until we went in to drive them out. Do you understand now?
-- Aubrey Bailey, Fleet, Hants. Letter to the Daily Mail.

Right on, Aubrey, and we support Saudi Arabia where beheadings are common, but we fight ISIL because of beheadings. Has everyone lost their heads?

The USA is training, arming, financing and bombing absolutely everybody it can and all of this, every bit of this, is because it serves the Zionist purpose of creating maximum chaos in the Middle East.
We must also remember that the Zionism which controls America and which is deliberately smashing up the Middle East is also the Zionism of the fifty to seventy million Christian Zionists of the USA whose deepest desire is to have Armageddon in the Middle East i.e., a major war after which, the Christian Zionists so fondly imagine, they will be wafted up to Heaven.
The Christian Zionists are not Christians. They are simply Zionists.
So the dark and sinister madness, bent on smashing the Middle East, is certainly the worst sort of madness from the viewpoint of normal, decent human beings.
But, from the viewpoint of the Zionists who want destruction and, from the viewpoint of the Christian Zionists who are so selfish that they think their own salvation is so important even if it causes the deaths of millions of others, the smashing of the Middle East is a Good Thing.
All this madness, all this destruction, all this Zionism comes together in the person of Barack Obama.
It will be to the everlasting shame of the Nobel Prize Committee that they gave a Peace Prize to the man who is guaranteeing that peace has now become impossible.jhaines6.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/presstv-dark-and-sinister-madness-has-descended-upon-us-government-by-rodney-shakespeare/

The Guardian is spelling it not "ISIS" but "Isis" like the lovely goddess of ancient Egypt - not a good choice. Better to use the original name ISIL. Sounds like something Silly, or Israeli, both appropriate! The L stands for the Levant, or Near East including Lebanon, which indeed is the target.

Beating the War Drums: Beware the Advice of Mission Creeps Cheney and Kissinger sandiegofreepress.org/2014/09/beating-the-war-drums-beware-the-advice-of-mission-creeps-cheney-and-kissinger/ And the media are right on message. "A whopping 94% of the American public stated that they had seen coverage of those brutal executions.... We should be very wary of images that are being used as emotional blackmail and call them out for what they are–war porn."
We should also be aware that US attacks will not destroy ISIS, they are going to make heroes out of them, make them stronger than ever, give their "Caliphate" a boost it couldn't get any other way. Which of course is the empire's strategy to totally trash the Muslim world.

Sept. 10

The Anglo-American empire has been busy subverting the Muslim world with fundamentalist heresies like Wahhabism for over two centuries. ISIS is the culmination of those efforts, the perfect patsy target excuse for intervening, exercising force and being "the decider," as Bush loved to say, in Iraq.

A year ago the US public didn't want a war with Syria, a year later they are all sold by the idea they're fighting ISIS www.facebook.com/partisangirl/posts/542688972527722 How convenient for Obomber's zionist plan to smash Syria. Of course ISIS was set up by US proxy Saudi Arabia, so where's the paradox.

New video from Syrian Partisan Girl. The strange things about the James Foley Beheading Video and the circumstances surrounding it. What you were not being told behind the scenes. Matthew Vandykes attempt to get Libyan Jihadis to help. Insight into Foley's work history with USAID.
The hypocrisy in the media, and the use of ISIS and the beheading to garner support for a war with Syria. www.facebook.com/partisangirl

People of good will the world over are right to focus on the enormity of zionist brutality in Gaza, and the fact that there will be no excuse on the day of reckoning for the overwhelming majority of israelis who support the genocide.

At the same time one factor seems to have been forgotten in all this.
It is the suspect origins of Hamas, which was created at least partly at the instance of the Mossad and Shin Bet, to forestall the eternal enemy of fascism and feudalism, namely, a progressive secular nationalism.
Hamas are islamists, and they are to a certain extent heroic jihadists.
Their idiotic rockets have got on the nerves of the israelis without serving any purpose other than venting a feeling of resistance, but a futile form of resistance.
So they have made themselves easy targets for the AIPAC media smear machine.
As intended from their incubation.

Death toll now over 1700 Palestinians. "The United Nations has warned that a health disaster of "widespread proportions is rapidly unfolding in the Gaza Strip as a direct result of the ongoing conflict." www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.608548 The article meticulously details each tiny loss inflicted on "Israel." A captured Israeli soldier is referred to as "kidnapped."

“Gaza is a graveyard,” sing crazed, exultant Israeli youths. Hate song also incites to murder against Tibi and Zoabi, two Palestinian members of the Knesset, the zionist kangaru parliament. Excerpts: "Tibi - Ahmed Tibi, I wanted you to know, The next kid to be hurt will be your kid! I hate Tibi, I hate Tibi the terrorist. Tibi - is dead! Tibi is a terrorist, a terrorist, a terrorist. In Gaza there’s no studying, No children are left there, Olé, olé, olé-olé-olé. Zoabi, this here is the Land of Israel, I hate you, I do, Zoabi, I hate all the Arabs. Oh-oh-oh-oh, Gaza is a graveyard..." electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/gaza-graveyard-sing-joyful-israeli-youths

The most dangerous human trait may be the victim syndrome. It deceives people that they are justified in lashing out and unleashing their aggressiveness, and desensitizes them to the suffering of their own victims. Zionism is totally built on a victim complex.

How the lying vocabulary of Zionist repression, spawned by a public relations think tank, is outdoing Orwell's new world order in subtle manipulation of American public opinion - the secret Luntz report helps "Israel" turn the facts upside down http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=101501

Israeli martial heroes are killing 30 civilians for every soldier Hamas kills, but the israeli toll of 53 is five times higher than in the last Gaza carnage. Does the Talmudic doctrine of racism, hatred and vengeance have something to do with this viciousness? Zionist madmen now label their US allies (or vassals, to be much more precise) "terrorists" for mildly demurring. http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=101614 The US has come a long way down from the day when Ike could tell "Israel" to clear out of Egypt's Sinai desert www.lewrockwell.com/2014/07/eric-margolis/is-the-tail-wagging-the-dog/Maybe they should go back to the Sinai, since they want it so bad - for 70 years in refugee camps, to see how it feels!

Just do a web search on Jews control media and you'll have plenty to read about and understand why America is the tail on the israeli dog.

What "Israel" regards as “unimaginable restraint” in Palestine www.veteranstoday.com/2014/07/31/what-israelis-regard-as-unimaginable-restraint-in-palestine/ If this is restraint, "Israel" unleashed would not leave a single human being alive in Gaza. They have admitted themselves that's what they want. And it all follows logically from their initial crime of usurpation. It's a zero sum game they created. Zionism must be zeroed out of the equation if humanity is to survive.

Gaza death toll now 1,100, with 2,000 children injured. Worst night in memory last night, with 60 airstrikes. Hamas got off only 3 rockets. Power station hit again, and fuel depot, fishermen's stores. 10% of population homeless.

Syrian Girl on Iraq and Syria : "Balkanizing countries is not an end to war, it is the beginning of war." On Washington's $500 million for "moderate Syria rebels" -- "Obama himself recently told the media that the idea of a ready moderate force that we can arm, that can have any chance of defeating the Syrian government, is a fantasy. So why is he dropping half a billion dollars onto a fantasy?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ2KzjNtDTc
The money will either end up in the hands of extremists, or if it does go to the FSA, they are fighting side by side with the Al Qaida brand Jabhat Al Nusra against the secular government. All three of the largest factions are takfiri extremists, any moderates that exist are just leftovers who have to join one or the other. ISIS is like the Crusaders or the Zionists, they believe God is a real estate agent who has given them a right to take other people's land. The so-called moderate groups also want to set up a Wahhabi state in Syria. The media use the term "moderate" not "secular" because these groups are in no way secular.
Paul Joseph Watson mentions that when they hear about these extremists cutting off hands and heads, a common reaction is "Kill all the Muslims." Asked how she feels about this, Syrian Girl said this is the most ignorant reaction possible, because it's the Muslims most of all who are suffering and being killed by ISIS, which is backed by the US. Asked to sum up ISIS in a nutshell, it's backed up by the governments of the US, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and it's a tool to destabilize countries that have a lot of resources but lack the power to defend themselves.

Sign spotted today in Herzl Boulevard in Jerusalem: "There are No Innocents in Gaza" twitter.com/Elizrael/status/493362454919774210/photo/1 Not even little kids?
How is this going to end in anything but catastrophe when Israelis just keep getting more vicious, hateful, brutal and inhuman with each generation? What will it take - a second coming of Christ? Don't hold your breath, people have been waiting a long time. Maybe they'll all choke on their own bile and leave the world in peace at last? Just as likely. It's really pretty scary.

At the same time, the Egyptian and Jordanian governments are fully complicit in the genocide, too.

July 26.

Brzezinski says Netanyahu "is making a very serious mistake. When Hamas in effect accepted the notion of participation in the Palestinian leadership, it in effect acknowledged the determination of that leadership to seek a peaceful solution with Israel. That was a real option. They should have persisted in that.
Instead Netanyahu launched the campaign of defamation against Hamas, seized on the killing of three innocent Israeli kids to immediately charge Hamas with having done it without any evidence, and has used that to stir up public opinion in Israel in order to justify this attack on Gaza, which is so lethal.
I think he is isolating Israel. He's endangering its longer-range future." globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2014/07/21/brzezinski-netanyahu-making-a-very-serious-mistake/ Or put it another way: Hamas threatened "Israel" by declaring peace.

Huge demonstrations on West Bank, will this be a third Intifada? Reports that Palestinians are storming settlements in majority Pal areas.
Giant rage as midget "Israel" calls Brazil "diplomatic dwarf."

July 19. Just a COG in the ZOG: US Congress and Media in Lockstep with Netanyahu's Stormtroops. "Die Amis können nur marschieren."

US Senate *Unanimously* Passes Resolution Supporting Israeli Assault on Gaza. Following a similar resolution passed last week by the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate voted Thursday night to support Israel’s ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip.
No dissenting vote was cast, and no mention was made of the hundreds of Palestinian civilians, most of whom are women and children, that have been killed by Israel in the past ten days. vineyardsaker.blogspot.se/
Little Rand Paul reveals himself as another Zionist asset begging for AIPAC funds. "Paul is urging the Senate to pass his own bill, S. 2265, which would end all U.S. foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority until Hamas is barred from the new Palestinian unity government." Goal. That is exactly what the kidnapping of the 3 youths and the onslaught on Gaza is about- the zionist divide and conquer trick wasn't working right.

Here in San Diego, the media totally blacked out a protest against the genocide in Gaza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk-PS8iWdgI Interspersed with excerpts of speeches in British parliament denouncing the onslaught on Gaza. Curiously the House of Commons is not as bought up by the filthy money of zionist lobbyists as is US Congress. One speaker considers a threat of EU sanctions against "Israel."

How US and Blair plotted ‘ceasefire’ scam - We now have confirmation from the Israeli daily Haaretz of what we should have suspected: that the idea for the so-called Egyptian “ceasefire proposal” was actually hatched in Washington, the messenger boy was arch-war criminal Tony Blair, and the terms were drafted by Israel www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2014-07-16/how-us-and-blair-plotted-ceasefire-scam

Via legitgov.org: According to Haaretz, the IDF has an 87% success rate shooting down Hamas 180 rockets coursing towards urban areas, which were only a fraction of the 900 total. Tel Aviv accepted an Egyptian cease-fire proposal but some in Hamas are still arguing about it, so Netanyahu is now warning 100,000 civilians to get out of the way of a bigger, badder strike The Gaza death toll is now 202. www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.605161 Gaza's water system is near collapse. www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/.premium-1.605332

July 14

"Thousands flee northern Gaza after Israel warnings." www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28282291 BBC report on Gaza refers to elected Hamas government as "militants" and speaks of civilians fleeing to a UN facility without saying where it might be. It must be within the Gaza strip, because to my knowledge, there is no way Gaza's residents can flee the zone, it is walled in and there is no way out.
"The UN says 17,000 people have sought refuge in its facilities." That happens to be just 1% of Gaza's 1.7 million population - who are already refugees, many of them since 1948. Netanyahu is quoted a saying he wants to give his people "permanent quiet" which sounds an awful lot like making a graveyard out of the original inhabitants so the usurpers can reside in peace.
The zionist excuse for the latest excess of ethnic cleansing has now switched from the alleged kidnapping to the rockets fired by Hamas. Granted Hamas are foolish to shoot off their idiotic firecrackers and provoke a million-fold retaliation by the sadistic zionists. Of course Hamas are also infiltrated and financed partly by the israelis so their judgment may be impaired by moles or other means of encouraging suicidal ideas. The whole Middle East has been so twisted and contaminated by imperialism for centuries now.
The zionist project itself is of course an infinitely greater and more dangerous folly. www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/doomed-to-fight-1.360698
But there is a method to the madness, the usual one, divide and conquer.
On the other hand, you can understand the Palestinian need to at least try and strike back symbolically, even if it's only with useless rocks or rockets. According to some reports, the Kassem rockets have at least shown what a joke the "Iron Dome" anti-missile defense system is.
Via legitgov.org: But according to Haaretz, the IDF has an 87% success rate shooting down 180 rockets coursing towards urban areas, which was only a fraction of the 900 total. Tel Aviv accepted an Egyptian cease-fire proposal but some in Hamas are still arguing about it, so Netanyahu is now warning 100,000 civilians to get out of the way of a bigger, badder strike The Gaza death toll is now 202. www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.605161 Gaza's water system is near collapse. www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/.premium-1.605332

Must watch. The Truth About ISIS, With Syrian Girl Partisan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ2KzjNtDTc Who is backing ISIS? What is the agenda behind the group's takeover of Iraq and the Middle East?
The Western hyperbole over ISIS the invincible is helping it to attract naive young recruits who think it's the sword of God, when in fact it could only thrive so well thanks to support by states.

The Islamic Khalifate was the most progressive state of its time, harboring scientists, philosophers and literati, and pioneering the statecraft of religious tolerance. A new Khalifate would not be a bad idea. If the Europeans can form a Union, why not the Muslims?
That of course would be anathema to zionist imperialism. Thus the ISIS Frankenstein has been hatched to give the idea of a Khalifate a bad name - the most regressive, unenlightened regime imaginable.
Similarly, if you believe historians like Antony Sutton that Nazism was an artificial creation of the banksters, then it served perfectly to discredit the idea of a system combining nationalism and socialism, such as the Baathist party. "National socialism" would be the antithesis of globalist austerity. But we can't use the term because it has been made into an epithet! OK, how about Social Nationalism!
What all these countries need is a clean, progressive government that stands for national development, national interests and social justice. What they get is exactly the opposite -- corrupt, reactionary, neocolonialist and oligarchical.

I attended a showing of Occupation 101, an excellent film about the usurpation and suppression of Palestine, presented by sd911truth.org/ After the showing a Palestinian couple answered questions and spoke about the situation in Gaza. They confirmed suspicions about the story of the kidnapped settlers, as they related some information that is being talked about in Palestine.

First of all, the three were not kids, they were in the "IDF" army. Second, they may actually have died in a car accident a couple weeks earlier. Their deaths were kept secret to be used at the right time. The timing involves the unity agreement between the PLO and Hamas a month ago, which threatens the zionist divide and conquer strategy, and could force Israel to settle for peace with Palestine.

They referred me to sott.net for more details. www.sott.net/article/281194-Abducted-Israeli-teenagers-found-dead-A-convenient-development-for-Israel and The Truth Behind the Kidnapping and Murder of 3 Israeli Teens www.sott.net/article/281706-Psychopathic-Morality-The-Truth-Behind-the-Kidnapping-and-Murder-of-3-Israeli-Teens
"The official narrative around the kidnapping of the Israeli boys has them being 'missing' for 18 days before their bodies were discovered on July 1st. During this time, in a supposed desperate attempt to find them alive and "bring them home", the Israeli government had the (very willing) Israeli military rampage through the West Bank destroying homes and arresting and interrogating hundreds of Palestinians... blood, the boys' DNA and spent bullet casings were discovered in the burned-out car found shortly after the kidnapping." This fits well enough with the car accident theory. If it were really a kidnapping, why was it necessary to set the car on fire? To attract attention? That smells a lot more like destroying the evidence of a car crash. Why has no group come forward to claim the act? No demands for ransom or anything else? Typical false flag profile.

Joe Quinn of sott.net says the suspects fingered in the kidnapping are from an anti-Hamas clan with "a tendency to attack (or try to attack) Israeli targets specifically during ceasefires." "Each time Hamas had reached an understanding with Israel about a cease-fire or period of calm, at least one member of the family has been responsible for planning or initiating a suicide attack, and any understandings with Israel, achieved after considerable effort, were suddenly laid waste. If there is a single family throughout the PA territories whose actions can be blamed for Israel's assassination of the political leadership of Hamas, it is the Qawasmeh family of Hebron."
Our Palestinian hosts mentioned another possibility: the homes of the suspects are strategically located for seizure to expand Jewish settlements.

They also told us about the death of young Muhammad Abu Khudair. Settlers seized him and burned him alive with gasoline. They beat up his cousin, a US citizen, who awoke in jail. We would never have heard of the murder if the cousin were not a US citizen. The murderers are expected to be plead temporary insanity and receive short sentences.

"Israel" may repeat ground invasion of Gaza. Israelis claim mosques are used to hide weapons and connect tunnels. A center for the disabled is bombed too. Victims didn't have time to escape through tunnels in their wheelchairs.

ISIS role in destruction of Iraq by transnational elite rt.com/op-edge/172084-isis-iraq-destruction-elite/
"In fact, what is happening today in Iraq is neither a religious war between Sunnis and Shias, nor an anti-terrorism war against jihadists (ISIS). On the contrary, the transnational elite has now entered the final phase of its plan to either destroy the Middle East regimes that were based on national liberation movements (Baathist regimes in Iraq and Syria, Gaddafi’s regime in Libya), or at least to secure their submission to the new world order of neoliberal globalization (Iran). The main aim has always been to integrate them completely into the new world order, which emerged with the rise of transnational corporations and the parallel collapse of the Soviet bloc. The instruments used for this aim have ranged from all out military invasion, to brutal NATO bombings, and "coups from below." The latter is also the method used to integrate Ukraine."
Thus, "the goal was the elimination of any Ba’athist trace from the new client regime."
The point is that the Middle East has many largely stand-alone economies that are not integrated into the bankster-controlled WTO and world trade generally. That's the reason for the "Arab Spring" and the color revolutions of Eastern Europe.
Author Takis Fotopoulos is preparing three books on the subject for Progressive Press.
The full version of this article will be published at www.inclusivedemocracy.org/fotopoulos/

Over 400 homes in Gaza destroyed or damaged by airstrikes as of July 11 http://www.mezan.org/en/details.php?id=19215 "At least 409 houses were destroyed or damaged during this period; of which 128 were destroyed completely as the IOF directly and deliberately attacked 122 of them. IOF attacks also damaged or destroyed 19 schools, 8 mosques, an ambulance center and a hospital."

Fourth day of innocent bloodshed as the bloodthirsty criminal Netanyahu unleashes savage bombing of the densely crowded Gaza Strip, destroying schools, hospitals, killing over 100 civilians. Zionist-controlled US gov't and media frame the mayhem as Israel's "responsible" self-defense. Ad nauseam.
Abby Martin speaks out angrily on RT: it's a struggle against colonialist oppression https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5suQjx4em8 Not one single person in the usurper state of "Israel" has been killed by Hamas rockets. And since Hamas is the democratically elected government of Gaza, "Hamas targets" can include schools, social services, anything. Down with Israel for good and forever! Down with zionist occupation and ethnic cleansing, down with racist supremacy and genocide!

"Israel’s message to the Palestinians: Submit, leave or die." http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/israels-message-palestinians.html by Jeff Halper. The onslaught is not in retaliation for Hamas rockets or the kidnapping of the three Jewish boys, it has been waiting for a pretext. The message: Palestinians will have no state, they are non-persons in the Jewish state, they have no right to exist. Only Jews have a right to exist.

ISIS in Iraq stinks of CIA/NATO ‘dirty war’ op. rt.com/op-edge/168064-isis-terrorism-usa-cia-war/ Engdahl notes that the US trained ISIS militants at a secret camp in Jordan. The stand-down in Mosul is suspect, and there are links to anti-Russian militants from Chechnya and Georgia, which is placed to smuggle fighters into Syria through Turkey. Some ISIS fighters even have US passports.

See also July 5th entry pointing to US involvement in inciting sectarian conflict and ethnic cleansing.

Iranian political cartoon.

Scare reports that ISIS have seized chemical weapons stores are mostly for propaganda, as the materials have degraded and been decontaminated, making them useless for weapons. bigstory.ap.org/article/iraq-says-terrorists-seize-chemical-weapons-site Similarly with reports that ISIS has obtained low-grade nuclear material "40 kg of uranium" from scientific labs at Mosul University. www.cnn.com/2014/07/10/world/meast/iraq-crisis/index.html
These stories of course have big propaganda value for The War on [of] Terror, not least in shoring up the idea that Saddam had WMD all the time, of course. In fact the chemical stuff goes back to the 1980's. Sarin has a pretty short shelf life, likely already useless before the elder Bush's war. Thereafter it was expressly decontaminated.

www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/06/why-the-white-house-ignored-all-those-warnings-about-isis.html Go figure. The CIA knew for months that ISIS was a threat, and Maliki asked for help against them last year.
“It’s simply not true that nobody saw a disaster like the fall of Mosul coming,” Ali Khedery, who served as a senior adviser at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, told The Daily Beast. “I can’t speak for anyone else, but I literally predicted this in verbal warnings and in writing in 2010 that Iraq would fall apart.”

This guy knows but people won't listen because he's Iranian. Assistant Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Massoud Jazaeri said it is the US which is running the command center of the terrorist war against Syria and Iraq. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=700706319965153
Jazaeri: the terrorist groups in Syria, Iraq and other countries in the region are part of “the strategy of world hegemony against the peoples of the region.”
This strategy, he added, has been used against countries which reject the American domination, as proved by the facts and events in the region.

Now it's painfully clear what was behind those SAS special forces dressed in mufti driving around blowing up mosques in Basra -- remember? www.globalresearch.ca/were-british-special-forces-soldiers-planting-bombs-in-basra/994 "These accusations by Iraqi officials echo insistent but unsubstantiated claims, going back at least to the spring of 2004, to the effect that many of the terror bombings carried out against civilian targets in Iraq have actually been perpetrated by U.S. and British forces rather than by Iraqi insurgents... Writers in the English-language corporate media have repeatedly noted that recent terror-bomb attacks which have caused massive casualties among civilians appear to be pushing Iraq towards a civil war of Sunnis against Shiites, and of Kurds against both... the ethnic cleansing of Shiites in predominantly Sunni Baghdad neighbourhoods “is proceeding at an alarming and potentially destabilizing pace” ... the U.S. army has been deploying Kurdish peshmerga troops and Shiite militias in a manner that seems designed to inflame ethnic hatreds...
A partitioning of Iraq into sections defined by ethnicity and by Sunni-Shia differences would entail, obviously enough, both civil war and ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. But these considerations did not deter Leslie H. Gelb from advocating in the New York Times, on November 25, 2003, what he called “The Three-State Solution”. www.nytimes.com/2003/11/25/opinion/the-three-state-solution.html Gelb, a former senior State Department and Pentagon official, a former editor and columnist for the New York Times, and president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, is an insider’s insider." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_H._Gelb
Now that the three-state solution is apparently assured, Gelb has come out with some blinking psycho-babble of a cover story that he is for a one-state solution after all and he didn't really mean it that way back in 2003. His new recipe is even more mayhem: "Only the hell of civil war can bring them back, in time, to political solutions." www.nytimes.com/2014/07/02/opinion/leslie-gelb-iraq-must-not-come-apart.html Smash what's left, and to hell with them.
Author Michael Keefer then calls Gelb's scheme a war crime and compares it unfavorably to "the essays of Yinon and Schiff... nasty stuff" -- see www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815 and www.globalresearch.ca/preparing-the-chessboard-for-the-clash-of-civilizations-divide-conquer-and-rule-the-new-middle-east/27786

The pattern is the same in Syria, of course. Many people have said that before this "revolution" Syrians never thought in terms of sect or religion. Yet western "experts" are touting the idea of dividing Syria along ethnic lines. The French did this during their occupation in the 1920's when they split it up into six states along ethnic lines. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Mandate_for_Syria_and_the_Lebanon "However, nearly all the Syrian sects were hostile to the French mandate and to the division it created."

Just weeks before Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad’s Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department began investigating the security contractor’s operations in Iraq. But the inquiry was abandoned after Blackwater’s top manager there issued a threat: “that he could kill” the government’s chief investigator and “no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq,” according to department reports.
American Embassy officials in Baghdad sided with Blackwater rather than the State Department investigators as a dispute over the probe escalated in August 2007, the previously undisclosed documents show. The officials told the investigators that they had disrupted the embassy’s relationship with the security contractor and ordered them to leave the country, according to the reports. www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/us/before-shooting-in-iraq-warning-on-blackwater.html

Retired Syrian Pilots Flying Sukhois Aircrafts For Iraq https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=728093910581976 The Syrian government has already warned Mr. Al-Maliki that US drones will be used to improve the military position of ISIS before any useful information will be forwarded to Iraqi Army HQ.

But this should come as no surprise. The British were already at this game when they set up the warlord Saud and the fundie freak Sheikh Wahhab in business back in the 18th century. Fundamentalists and feudal oligarchs won't let populism sprout where it gets underfoot of the empire.

That worked so well they'd like to crush the states with a long history of tending to secular nationalism and socialism like Syria, Iraq and Egypt (remember Nasser) and set up another group of grotesque medieval gargoyles to run the fiefdom.

JCS Chairman Dempsey: we won't attack ISIS if they don't attack US. Isn't that peace-loving. Why don't they say that to Syria, Donetsk and all the other places they attack every other minute? 'Coz ISIS is special.

Raimondo is not buying the "bungling Yankees" excuse. He writes:
So what were their intentions, and just how "good" were they? As I put it years ago:
"[T]he actual purpose was to blow the country to smithereens: to atomize it, and crush it, so that it would never rise again.
"When we invaded and occupied Iraq, we didn’t just militarily defeat Iraq’s armed forces – we dismantled their army, and their police force, along with all the other institutions that held the country together. The educational system was destroyed, and not reconstituted. The infrastructure was pulverized, and never restored. Even the physical hallmarks of a civilized society – roads, bridges, electrical plants, water facilities, museums, schools – were bombed out of existence or else left to fall into disrepair. Along with that, the spiritual and psychological infrastructure that enables a society to function – the bonds of trust, allegiance, and custom – was dissolved, leaving Iraqis to fend for themselves in a war of all against all."

The Yanks, of course, know how to do this. They are the experts, they have won lots of wars, and they know how to calibrate defeat. They showed that with the Indians, the Confederacy, the domains of the empires smashed in World War I, with Germany and Japan. Working on the Yinon plan, they knew exactly how to smash Iraq so it would fall apart into "small ethnic or sectarian states."

Understatement of the month: If You Were An Iraq War Critic, You're Probably Not Being Asked To Go On TV www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/27/iraq-war-critics-tv-bookers_n_5534549.html
Instead, the corrupt media are busily scrambling to invite war ciminals from the Bush team to whip up war hysteria anew. "According to liberal watchdog Media Matters, Cheney, Wolfowitz, former presidential envoy to Iraq Paul Bremer and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol have made 16 TV appearances in less than two weeks."

June. 27

White House requests $500 million to aid Syrian rebels rt.com/usa/168720-obama-syrian-rebel-fund/ Half a billion to stoke civil war, destruction and suffering. Big Lie about "moderate rebels" still has legs (after Kerry already admitted they don't exist). How many billion US and Saudis spent on extremist rebels ISIS?

June 26. The Chaos In Iraq Is By DESIGN... Israeli-neocon design

The Real History of the American Strategy for Iraq and the Middle East www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/06/mess-iraq-design.html
Neoconservatives like Paul Wolfowitz planned regime change in Iraq more than 20 years ago … in 1991.
But the goal wasn’t just regime change (or oil). The goal was to break up the country, and to do away with the sovereignty of Iraq as a separate nation.

everything is going according to plan. The “skittles theory” of the Middle East – that one ball aimed at Iraq can knock down several regimes...

a paper published in 1996 by an Israeli thinktank, the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies. Entitled “A clean break: a new strategy for securing the realm”, it was intended as a political blueprint for the incoming government of Binyamin Netanyahu. "an entirely new intellectual foundation, one that restores strategic initiative and provides the nation the room to engage every possible energy on rebuilding Zionism …"

several of the “Clean Break” paper’s authors now holding key positions in Washington.
many of the same people – including Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, John Bolton and others – advocated their imperial views during the Clinton administration via their American think tank, the “Project for a New American Century”.

"One of the prime goals of every empire is to foment ongoing internecine conflict in the territories whose resources and/or strategic outposts they covet. The most efficient way of sparking such open-ended internecine conflict is to brutally smash the target country’s social matrix and physical infrastructure.
Ongoing unrest has the additional perk of justifying the maintenance and expansion of the military machine that feeds the financial and political fortunes of the metropolitan elite.
In short … divide and rule"
So what's the end game - have everyone else on earth kill each other, so just they survive?
Thanks to Cottrell for the link.

If you follow the theory in The Money Power and in Antony Sutton's work, that the empire set up the Bolshevik and fascist extremists as countergangs to get Russia and Germany to destroy each other, then you may agree with me that the appearance of ISIS is a very bad omen indeed for the Middle East (as if the Wahhabi extremists sitting on all that oil for almost a century were not enough).

Kerry tells Syria "How dare you fight ISIS! Hands off our GLADJIHADIO gang! We spent a lot of money on them dammit!" Officially, "It's important that nothing take place that contributes to the extremism." He means, that annihilates the extremists we have so carefully nurtured. news.yahoo.com/kerry-issues-warning-syria-bombs-iraq-163554655.html The empire's crypto-Jewish spokesman Kerry says, "We've made it clear to everyone in the region that we don't need anything to take place that might exacerbate the sectarian divisions." Partisangirl ripostes, "ISIS is as sectarian as it gets, you imbecile!" and cites a WSJ interview with a White House neocon who advises, "Attacking ISIS is inconvenient, they are useful against Syria."

Sunni tribal leader tells CNN: “ISIS is trying to ride the wave of the Sunni revolution. It’s trying to exploit it and we won’t accept this.” “America needs to not look at Iraq through a single lens. There is a real revolution, real opposition. Maliki is polishing his image. American needs to listen to us. We don’t have an issue with anyone. We just want our rights. We have a right to live here.” “ISIS is going to open a door in Iraq that can’t be closed and we are aware of this. You can’t stop ISIS without the tribes. America shouldn’t think that the Maliki government can stop ISIS. Maliki is the real danger to us. We can get rid of ISIS whenever we want, and rest assured we will fight them.” www.mojahedin.org/newsen/29195

The sectarian illusion of Iraq as purported by the media http://www.commdiginews.com/world-news/the-sectarian-illusion-of-iraq-as-purported-by-the-media-20311 The media’s first mistake is making ISIS synonymous with “Sunni”... The head of the Sunni Awakening Council in Iraq openly supports the Iraqi government in their fight against ISIS. He was killed in a suicide bombing.... numerous horrific videos that have flooded social media showing random drive-by shootings by ISIS members on Sunnis, Fox News has reported that ISIS is also responsible for the killings of 12 Sunni Imams who refused to give their allegiance to ISIS. This struggle is not Sunni versus Shiite, it is Iraq versus ISIS.

Nobody's fool. rt.com/op-edge/167344-us-regime-change-iraq-again/ ISIS victories are not a failure, but a success of US policies. ISIS was created, funded and trained by US and its Saudi puppets. The supposed cooperation with Iran and the false label on the Iraq government as "Shiite" are camouflage. Many if not most ISIS victims are Sunni, and "the vast majority of Muslims refuse to even recognize the ISIL as being Muslim, let alone as being Sunnis."

June 22. Why does Iraq keep getting destroyed? "It is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel."

Maliki is under attack because USA is running a protection racket and he didn't pay his dues. The agenda is to partition Iraq as dictated by the Yinon plan. www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/20/its-all-for-israel/ Mike Whitney again in Counterpunch. Why does Iraq keep getting destroyed? "It is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel." -- Oded Yinon in "A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties." Yinon’s prescription of “breaking up Iraq …along ethnic/religious lines …so, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul.”

www.landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2014/06/natos-terror-hordes-in-iraq-pretext-for.html ISIS is a creation of NATO and the GCC (Gulf states). The story about looting the central bank of Mosul for $430 million is a camouflage for their real source of funding.
"ISIS is the product of a joint NATO-GCC conspiracy stretching back as far as 2007 where US-Saudi policymakers sought to ignite a region-wide sectarian war to purge the Middle East of Iran's arc of influence stretching from its borders, across Syria and Iraq, and as far west as Lebanon and the coast of the Mediterranean. ISIS has been harbored, trained, armed, and extensively funded by a coalition of NATO and Persian Gulf states within Turkey's (NATO territory) borders and has launched invasions into northern Syria with, at times, both Turkish artillery and air cover. The most recent example of this was the cross-border invasion by Al Qaeda into Kasab village, Latikia province in northwest Syria."
ISIS takes hostages at Turkish embassy in Mosul giving Turkey the pretext it has sought to invade Syria.

www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/18/the-isis-fiasco-its-really-an-attack-on-iran/ Once again, the Iraq army didn't melt away, it was a stand-down organized by Sunni military chiefs. The US is behind this as a way of getting revenge on Maliki for kicking them out, and on Iran for coming out ahead in Bush's war. ISIS and US agree on some major points: "The strategic objectives of Isis and those of the United States coincide. Both entities seek greater political representation for Sunnis, both want to minimize Iranian influence in Iraq, and both support a soft partition plan." They hope that they can break up Iraq into three smaller oil fiefdoms that will be loyal vassals like the Gulf emirates. “ISIS is the creation of the one man who played Alqaeda like a yo-yo. Bandar bin Sultan.” (Thanks to Richard Cottrell for the link.)

Association of Muslim Scholars: Four Groups Lead Revolution in Iraq - of which ISIS only contributed 500 fighters. The media have a dishonest agenda in portraying ISIS as the main force. http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=31681

harpers.org/blog/2014/06/the-long-shadow-of-a-neocon/ How neo-con Bush puppet Zalmay Khalilzad helped create the catastrophes in Afghanistan and Iraq by selecting leaders for these occupied countries. Iraq's Maliki was an obscure nobody who was foreseeably incapable of doing anything but foster corruption and increase sectarian division. harpers.org/blog/2014/06/the-long-shadow-of-a-neocon/ Karzai in Afghanistan likewise presides over a mass of corruption, fueled by opium. Khalilzad, like Karzai, was a consultant for oil firm Unocal. (See "Zalmay Khalilzad -- Bush's Theorist" in the book Enemies by Design, published by Progressive Press.)

"Tony Blair Bears 'Total Responsibility' For Isis, Says Academic Who Advised Him On Iraq" - Expert advisers relate how Blair turned deaf ears to advice against war on Iraq. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/17/iraq-tony-blair_n_5503110.html The bored zionist puppet wasn't interested, he already had his orders and his rewards from his masters.

edition.cnn.com/2014/06/17/tech/social-media/iraq-crisis-isis-social-media/index.html ISIS has a very slick social media presence, with Hollywood-quality propaganda films. "This is funded," said Nadia Oweidat, a Middle East analyst. "This is geopolitics. There is money behind it. It's not just idiots; these idiots have somebody controlling them and providing them with equipment that is very expensive. You can't just get it in a cave." Hmm -- maybe in bin Laden's cave?

Iraq's central government suffers mortal blow www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27883157 "The best-case scenario for Iraq is devolution of power from the centre in Baghdad to local Shia, Sunni Arabs and Sunni Kurdish communities; the worst is splintering of the country to three separate entities. ISIS's swift advance has exposed the state's structural and institutional weaknesses, as well as a deep ideological and sectarian rift in society," says the BBC. The British should know.
"It is misleading to exaggerate ISIS military prowess and exploits... it is a manifestation of a bigger revolt by (tribal) Sunni Arabs against what they view as Mr Maliki's sectarian authoritarianism."

Why America Should Let Iraq Resolve its Own Crisis by Graham E. Fuller Former vice chairman, CIA’s National Intelligence Council www.huffingtonpost.com/graham-e-fuller/america-iraq-resolve-crisis_b_5500900.html "The single most destructive regional power at this point is Saudi Arabia and its satellites who bankroll the extremist Sunni jihadis in both Syria and Iraq. Its blatantly sectarian stance has everything to do with Gulf geopolitics and little to do with Shi'ism as such: Iran would be a rival to Saudi Arabia even were it Sunni to the core."

The sectarian myth of Iraq: We coexisted peacefully for centuries, and need neither brutal dictators nor western intervention www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/16/sectarian-myth-of-iraq Every tribe in Iraq has Sunnis and Shia in its ranks. Iraq had never been home to violence between sects until the divide-and-rule policies of the US occupation.

June 16.

The ISIS Crisis and the stuff of miracle tales: from zero to billions in nothing flat, thanks to pure genius. Their own, or from a CIA think tank?

The Guardian: "The group's leaders had been meticulously chosen... The strategic acumen of Isis was impressive – so too its attention to detail... Isis secured massive cashflows from the oilfields of eastern Syria, which it had commandeered in late 2012... in less than three years, Isis had grown from a ragtag band of extremists to perhaps the most cash-rich and capable terror group in the world... They had done this all themselves. There was no state actor at all behind them... Social media postings throughout last week revealed the group's shock at its successes."

Imagine looting $450 million dollars from the central bank - isn't that an all time record for bank robberies? No preventive measures were taken? Was it a set-up? Funding ISIS to be the final hammer blow to Assad's Syria, of course. It's already clear the army was ordered to melt away in a stand-down.
Washington Post: On the ISIS founder: "a tattooed ex-convict and high school dropout had few followers and scant ties to the local population. Yet, the Stranger — soon to be known widely as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — quickly rallied thousands of Iraqis and foreign fighters to his cause." "ISIS’s astonishing recent gains were mostly due to skillfully forged alliances with Sunni tribal leaders."
Stranger than fiction. The story makes no sense, it looks like a prime-time action film to fool the people.
Back in Zarqawi's heyday, on the day of the London Tube bombings, 7/7/2005, I wrote:
"Today, the fiction was a “secret” group affiliated – oh how wonderfully convenient – with Al Qaeda and Al Zarqawi. Yet the BBC itself has established that Al Qaeda does not even exist, in its documentary “The Terror Myth.” And just yesterday Dahr Jamail <www.dahrjamailiraq.com> wrote of his trip to the town of Zarqa, on the trail of the fabled Zarqawi. The man’s family believe he died years ago - no recent photos exist. Certain is only that the mythical Zarqawi always has his base of operations wherever the Americans want to attack – Fallujah, Mosul, wherever." usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/16539Wherever a Gladio-type operation is needed.

I'm not the only skeptic. Here's an article posted yesterday, "The ISIS Crisis: The Mythology of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Everything Old is New Again."
Author Scott Creighton notes, "Zarqawi and his organization the ISIS have a long history of being used by U.S. administration officials and others as the justification for military action, especially in Iraq. After all, Zarqawi was the poster-child for the 2003 invasion...
"As a young man, Zarqawi was troubled. Drinking, getting into trouble, being arrested multiple times. He was a thug who ended up being sentenced to many years in a Jordanian prison...
"But then suddenly, he’s released and finds himself on a personal quest of Jihad against the Muslim government of Afghanistan because it aligned itself with the communist Soviet Union. He rushed over and joined the CIA backed destabilization campaign in that country then run by another CIA op, a guy by the name of Osama bin Laden.
"Then he goes back to Jordan and helps their local FBI type institution set-up some locals for a “homegrown terrorist” plot and only gets 5 years for his role in that? ...
"If you’re going to put together a band of roving thugs who will do just about anything for your cause, including risking their lives, what better place to recruit? Young street thugs, criminals, murderers, rapists, drug dealers… facing 10, 20, 30 years to life in some Jordanian (Egyptian, Saudi…) prison hell-hole, or facing death… that’s not a bad lot to pick from is it considering what they want them to do."

Indeed, Syria has been plagued by "Jihadis" who are really just convicts from Saudi jails.
It's also well known that petty criminals and sex offenders like Zarqawi usually have quite low IQ's. They are anything but organizational geniuses. They are in jail because they are stupid.
Sorry, if I want to read fairy tales, the classic literature is a lot better.
In real life, can any ordinary kid defy gravity to become US President? Sure -- if the powers-that-be want him to.
Ne'er-do-wells and nobodies can make their meteoric mark too -- with powerful sponsors and handlers to set them up.
ISIS has made in USA written all over it.
It's another Gladio countergang, being pumped up to smash Syria for good.

www.legitgov.org/Iraqi-Sunni-scholars-Iraqi-rebels-not-ISIS-who-face-Iraqi-army Iraqi Sunni scholars protest that Iraqi rebels, not ISIS, are the main force who face the Iraqi army. Rebelling tribes have grievances against Maliki's sectarian rule.
Is the West distorting the reality, and what is the agenda? Presumably to get their forces back into Iraq to be arbiters of the situation. Remember, the US did not withdraw its army of its own accord, Iraq demanded it. "The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) said on Friday that describing the rebels who drove the Iraqi army from several cities as operatives of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is incorrect. They decried the designations as an attempt to abort the uprising in the country. In the statement reported by the Jordanian Assabeel newspaper, AMSI said that the ISIS label is a clear distortion which does not change the reality that Iraqi rebels are the main component of this uprising...Despite claims that it was the ISIS which took over the cities and towns, several Iraqi sources have pointed out that tribal rebels as well as other Iraqi fighters constitute the main force currently fighting the Iraqi army, in addition to some affiliated to ISIS."
Note that Iraq's borders were drawn arbitrarily by Sykes-Picot. On the one hand, splitting up the country would fit the Zionist plan of balkanization, but autonomy for Sunnis and Kurds could resolve tensions too.

What Iraq does not need is more US airstrikes, but not to worry. rt.com/news/166068-us-uk-iraq-joint-force/ USUK are sending a team to prepare the ground for airstrikes. "The team is understood to include MI6 operatives as well as high-ranking special forces officers." Good boys. The Gladio Air Cavalry is on the wing. Great tradition. UK has been aerially bombing Iraq since the 1920's.

Unconfirmed reports of ISIS rocket or mortar attacks on Baghdad airport already, as it overflows with families trying to fly away.

Two days before the fall of Mosul, Iraq cracked ISIS security and obtained detailed information on its leaders and sources of funding-- allegedly from looting antiquities, not from the KSA or Qatar. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/15/iraq-isis-arrest-jihadists-wealth-power After recent looting in Iraq, its assets in money and weapons estimated at $2.5 billion - for a force of only about 5,000 fighters. Captured ISIS courier also forewarned CIA and Iraqi interrogators of the attack on Mosul.

Tony BLIAR, the incorrigible whore, is touting the line that "No, it's not our fault in Iraq. Would be worse if we hadn't gone in there. And Saddam did have WMD potential."
But Ron Paul predicted the Iraq catastrophe in 2002 www.youtube.com/watchwww.counterpunch.org/2014/06/13/two-occupations-ending-in-hopeless-disasters Iraq and Afghanistan: in both countries, the US-trained armies crumble in battle with rebels. Is there something about the globalist empire that people don't want to fight for?
"The lid that the secular Baathists had kept on the simmering historical conflicts between Shiite and Sunni, Arab and Kurd, religious and irreligious, was blown off by the occupier, who presided over the de facto division of the country."
The large minority of Sunnis were treated like second-class citizens, and the Baathist party was outlawed.
ISIS was smart enough to ally with old Baathist elites and top Sunni officers who gave the order to their troops to stand down.

Iran will intervene to defend Baghdad, the Shiite majority in the south, the shrine of Ali at Najaf - and will be on the same side as the US, says Juan Cole in a very interesting piece combining breaking news and insightful background. www.juancole.com/2014/06/second-american-switch.html Now the US is perfectly placed in the balance of power position. They can calibrate the Takfiri threat to apply leverage against all parties, ﻿using the strength of the Muslims themselves, as they fight each other.

So now there is a huge mass of cannons on deck in the Middle East that the Zionist empire can use to destroy or hobble all the states in the region. Mission accomplished!
As for this business of restoring the Caliphate. Certainly that is the last thing the empire wants; that is why they are supporting a mad caricature of such a project.

Our author Webster Tarpley has written and spoken on this on a number of occasions. In August last year, at the time of the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood and M. Morsi, Tarpley addressed this in his broadcast: "Moslem Brotherhood Bid to Restore Caliphate Under CIA Auspices Blocked by Assad, Sisi, Shiite Powers." tarpley.net/2013/08/03/bid-to-restore-caliphate-under-cia-auspices-blocked-by-assad/ One small excerpt: "to use the 500,000 people of the Egyptian armed forces to attack Syria. That was the plan of Morsi and company."
His major work 9/11 Synthetic Terror has two chapters dealing directly with this theme: Ch. IV, "Al Qaeda: The CIA's Arab Legion," and Ch. XVI, "Islamic Fundamentalism: Fostered by US Foreign Policy." On p. 172 he discusses the role of Osama bin Laden.

"If Arabs and Muslims can be convinced that bin Laden is really their leader, and not a creature of the CIA, then they will never accomplish the modernizing reforms which the progressive nationalists promised. They will spend their time fighting among themselves in the name of re-creating the caliphate. They will be unable to make alliances against the Anglo-Americans with Europe, with the Orthodox, the Hindus, the Buddhists, the Confucians, the atheists, or anybody else; they will self-isolate themselves in endless backwardness. Bin Laden’s mass line is, after, all, that it is the duty of every Muslim to kill infidels wherever they are found. If applied literally, this would even cut off all scientific and commercial exchanges in a kind of murderous self-embargo. All these factors will make the Muslim ummah ever so much easier to divide and defeat. No wonder the CIA is so proud of having made bin Laden a folk hero of the Muslim world, with the help of the 9/11 attacks which the unstable dreamer could never have carried out by himself: literally billions of dollars of publicity for the Saudi misfit have paid off in one of the greatest psychological warfare operations of all time. Any cause that chooses bin Laden or some similar figure as its leader, we may be certain, is damning itself to a lonely and ignominious defeat at the hands of the laughing CIA kuffar (infidels)."

Historically, the Caliphate was not a backward entity within Islam. It was the glory of Baghdad's arts and sciences, and the administrative acumen of the Ottoman Empire. Britain destroyed the real, Ottoman Caliphate through the usual means of trickery and violence. Now the called-for Caliphate is supposed to take the Middle East back to some kind of primitive bedouin Islam.

In Ch. XVI, On p. 454 ff:
"Again and again, terrorist groups with US-UK backing have intervened against progressive nationalists in the Arab world, and in favor of their Islamic fundamentalist competition... During these years [around 1840] the British Arab Bureau and the British Indian Office carefully profiled the Arab psychology and ideology. Their starting point was that the Arabs would inevitably become hostile to British colonialism, and that nothing could be done to prevent this. However, these British orientalists also concluded that it might well be possible to provide synthetic ideologies for the inevitable Arab revolt which would help to make it self-isolating, abortive, and impotent. An obvious way to do this was to make the revolt not specifically anti-British, but anti-western and anti-European in general, lest the Arabs be able to ally with Russia or Germany to eject the UK. The Islamic tradition offered the raw material for the fabrication of a synthetic ideology of Arab rejection of the west to which today’s more fantastic ideologues of the Arab and Islamic worlds are much indebted."

In historical terms, a major line of this attack was the British sponsoring of Sheikh al Wahhab, the ideological extremist, and Ibn al Saud, the feudal warlord.

Two related concepts are counter-gangs and color revolutions. In a limited sense, counter-gangs are provocateurs: "If you want to discredit a clandestine organization [e.g. the Mau-Mau], then set up your own false-flag group under the same name, and have them commit unspeakable atrocities in the name of the target group." Thus we have suicide bombers and all sorts of extremists trained and funded by the empire through indirect channels -- like the Saudi conduit -- to give Muslims generally a bad name. We have Gladio, strategy of tension, Red Brigades, extremist organization defeating the cause they allegedly espouse.
In a more enlarged sense, a rival power's government can be taken over by a counter-gang, in order to create the pretext to target and destroy that country and neutralize it as a rival power. The history of the 20th century was dominated by warfare between the anglo empire and the straw men it cultivated: the Nazis, Bolsheviks and Japanese militarists.

Such movements share characteristics with color revolutions, in that they are fuelled by idealism that is designed to defeat itself. The crazed fanatics of ISIS are pathetic patsies, in the end. But before they fall, they bring down nations with them. Historically, synthetic religion has been one of the cheapest, most easily manipulated and explosive ideological fuels for the purpose.

More on divide and conquer: Israel's Yinon plan to balkanize the Ummah; Soros and the left-libs have their recipe. www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/iraq-isis-militants-syria-explainer And remember the Bernard Lewis plan for the Balkanization of the Middle East. Tarpley notes how Lewis strove to shore up Osama bin Laden's Islamic credentials right after 9/11: "Lewis argued that bin Laden’s brand of Islamic terrorism was completely consistent with classical Islam... Lewis’ gloating provides a candid glimpse of the intent behind western fostering of Islamism."

online.wsj.com/articles/iraqs-shiite-leaders-issue-call-to-arms-1402665085 Ayatollah Sistani calls for Shiites in Iraq's south to take up arms against ISIS, as the army flees. Will Iraq break up into Sunni and Shiite states? Another defeat for secular government and victory for factional division. With the resources of Northern Iraq at their disposal, ISIS may become a violent wave that overwhelms Syria, too.

Russia and China vetoed a UN resolution to refer allegations of war crimes in Syria’s civil war to the International Criminal Court. Referring the Syrian crisis to the international court wouldn’t have helped end the violence and would have laid the ground for military intervention, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin said.linkis.com/www.bloomberg.com/ne/ObgjI Russia and China have learned from the Libya atrocity how institutions like the UN and the ICC are abused by the evil empire, which controls them under the guise of the "international community."

US is no longer interested in terrorist victory in Syria, because of the predominance of Takfiri elements. The empire will only support them enough to harass Assad's government, reports Lebanon Al-Manar newspaper. Infighting between terrorist armed factions continues while government forces continue to advance, and are set to control all the main cities.

May 13. Government forces finally took Homs last week, once Syria's third largest city and always a hot spot of the rebellion. Much of the city is damaged. Assad's forces encircled the terrorists in their Old City stronghold, then offered the 2,000 Al-Qaeda fighters a chance to evacuate from the ruined neighborhood. Refugees are returning to salvage what they can and rebuild. www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-homs-residents-return-20140511-story.html

Apr. 18. A Dirty War on Orange County's Mosques. Tawdry tale of an FBI agent recruited to infiltrate Muslim communities. They were so harrassed by his extremist suggestions they got a restraining order to keep him away, and reported him to the FBI! As the situation soured, he went public with the whole stinking sting operation. www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/20/fbi-informant Who are the terrorists................

The US has started a pilot program to send advanced weapons to the Takfiri terrorists, such as anti-tank missiles, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Excellent, in-depth review of Hersh's book, The Red Line and the Rat Line from the London Review of Books. www.lrb.co.uk/2014/04/06/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
On Aug. 31, 2013, the Obomber regime was preparing to launch devastating airstrikes on Syria in just 48 hours, on Sept. 2. Then they suddenly threw the ball to Congress. Information had leaked through to Pentagon top brass, casting doubt that the sarin in the Aug. 21 attacks was used by Syria. An analysis from a Russian source delivered through a British intel channel played the key role. It came that close to "Oh, bomb first, ask questions later."

Apr. 6. New video from Syrian Girl Partisan. Second half of leaked Turkey false flag phone call clearly implicates Kerry and the US government! (So this was not leaked by NATO after all, the logic there was a bit too convoluted. More likely Russia or Syrian Electronic Army) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfpo2rX0waY Apparently Turkish special forces are in Syria for a year, waiting for the order to carry out the false flag plan, with the US frequently urging them on to take the step.
FM Davutoglu: Most of the time Kerry would ask me exactly this: "All right, have you made up your mind about hitting (Syria) and so forth?" ...
Sinirlogliu: The Americans handed out No Fly Zone plans. For the first time in that meeting.

On further consideration, was Turkey's false flag discussion on the phone leaked by NATO intelligence? Today's elections in Turkey are being seen as a referendum on Erdogan's AK government. Will the US try and replace it with another party that will be even more aggressive against Syria, and more pro-Israel? The false flag side of the story was very effectively suppressed by the Western media, so it won't cost the imperialists much. In the Turkish media it was a major scandal, involving social media as well, thus right along the pattern of soft power regime change tactis. Richard Cottrell, our Gladio author, hinted at "the usual suspects" in the case (NSA eavesdropping). US intel is in a position both to push Turks to consider a false flag attack and to eavesdrop on them.
The US is desperate to retrieve its lost position in the war on Syria, as seen by the recent shooting down of a Syrian jet that was strafing terrorists entering from Turkey (the jet crashed on Syrian territory).

Yesterday, the Israeli disinformation outlet "Debka file" issued quite an "exclusive" report on Turkey running Al-Qaeda attacks in Latakia. The sensational-sounding report was not confirmed by any other source and contained little we don't already know about Turkey's support for Takfiri terrorists. Thus it may have been timed for the Turkish elections, with an obligatory swipe at Tehran allegedly threatening to use its oil weapon (get it? so Turkey needs a pipeline from the Gulf through Israel, Jordan and a NWO-Israeli-subjugated Syria). "DEBKAfile Exclusive Report March 29" www.debka.com/article/23808/Syrian-rebels-allowed-to-attack-Latakia-from-Turkish-soil-under-Turkish-air-cover-Iran-raises-Cain-in-Ankara

Installing a militant NATO puppet government in Ankara would also serve US geopolitical goals in the Black Sea, in context of the Ukraine and Crimea crises.
So keep tuned to see how today's election turns out. First indications are that the AK is holding on, but there are reports on Twitter of irregularities and intimidation, ballots being destroyed, and news reports of violence resulting in 8 deaths. www.hurriyetdailynews.com/at-least-eight-killed-in-local-polls.aspx These were municipal elections but they are a bellwether for the national scene. All in all, pretty rough going.

If USA/NATO are the source of what Ankara is calling a "criminal leak," consequently, Erdogan should withdraw Turkey from NATO and stop being their dirty doormat.

The government couldn't block these Turkish front-page newspaper headlines, though: " I can send 4 men and order 8 missile attacks."
But the minders at the oh-so discreet ﻿BBC (not to say orwellian censors) managed to twist the story without mentioning it was all about planning a false flag provocation. www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26773702So the next time you see something like this, you know how to read between the lines:
"It relates to a discussion of possible military operations in Syria... it was potentially the most damaging purported leak so far as it appeared to have originated from the bugging of a highly confidential and sensitive conversation." As in... you wouldn't believe how dirty NATO is!

Davutoğlu calls the leak a "declaration of war." What do you know, heads or tails, they get a declaration of war. Could it just be that this NATO puppet's script says "We want war" ?

How can NATO lose the cyberwar when their surveillance is scooping up practically every phone call on the planet? They've just had two awful embarrassments in Ukraine - the notorious F the EU phone call by Nuland and the Estonian FM reporting the snipers on Maidan were from the junta coalition. The reason would seem to be that the NATO side is the one with the dirty laundry to hide.

Last year a Syrian intercept of NATO communications may have been decisive in the outcome of the war, by crippling the FSA. On Oct. 4, 2013 I posted to this blog:
SyrianPerspective.com claims Syrian Air Force decimated FSA officer corps, and also took out a group of ISIS officers, thanks to an intercept of communications from German spy ship in Mediterranean. http://www.syrianperspective.com/2013/10/october-3-2013-first-post-32-fsa.html﻿

Could Gladio Commandos be at work again in a verbatim repeat and re-recording of the beginning of the Syrian ''uprising''? Moreover, the sniping offensive was surgically targeted, taking place a short time after a lull in the violence had been achieved by a truce between Yanukovich and the Opposition. The result was a huge counterattack by the armed opposition, forcing Yanukovich to agree to a coalition, essentially toppling the government. www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/02/21/ukraine_president_promises_early_elections_coalition_government.html

The sniping attacks appear to be intended precisely to further destabilize the country, the last thing the Ukrainian government wanted. Thus the prime suspects would be NATO commandos, or Resistance members trained by NATO in false flag methods, to turn the public against Yanukovich. The latter seems less likely considering the truce forged just before the sniping, but wherever and whenever US interests are involved abroad, two faces may be found on one body. Observers reported that the snipers were "professionals" who aimed to kill with a single bullet - but they did not target those protesters who were shooting at police. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10652821/Ukraine-crisis-Deadly-snipers-extinguish-lives-of-Kievs-protesters.html

In conversations with a Ukrainian citizen living in the US, I learned some interesting background. Most people in Ukraine believe the protests are instigated from abroad. Western Ukraine historically has a strong nationalist party with fascist leanings, which ran the country as a Nazi collaborationist regime during WW2. It is from this layer that today's radical provocateurs and dissidents are drawn. Many in the Western areas are still bitter against Russia because Stalin starved millions of them during the 1930's. Corruption in the Yanukovich government is a real grievance, too. Of course, NWO divide and conquer tactics always seize on any imaginable differences, in order to provoke internecine warfare and gain control. Ukrainians are not as suspicious of foreign conspiracy as Syrians and thus may be easier to induce into the EU/NATO orbit, or to allow their country to be broken up.

The curious tale of Eric Harroun. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Harroun
Young US Army vet, says he converted to Islam. Went to Cairo's Tahrir Sq. to protest against Mubarak gov't in 2011. Then on to Turkey and to Syria, where he joined the FSA and fought with an Al Nusra battalion. On his return to the US he was arrested and jailed for being Al Qaeda. Wikipedia says he was "charged with various offenses, before being released under a secret plea deal." Hmm. Why not. His trial helped the US pose as being anti-terrorist to camouflage their leading role in sponsoring terrorism.
"Harroun's father Darryl claims that his son is "100 percent American" and alleged that his son was working with the CIA during his time in Syia... Harroun's federal public defender Geremy Kamens said Harroun's case is "unique in American law" in that, “Never, to my knowledge, has the U.S. government charged a U.S. citizen for fighting with a group aligned with U.S. interests." ... the New York Times also shares the belief that Harroun was "fighting on the U.S. side, but with the wrong people."" Ahah, it has to be politically correct humanitarian terrorism, which is just what the world needs. So America at least has something to export.

Kerry returns to threats against Syria on specious pretext of missed deadline for destruction of CW. US-controlled rebels are preventing removal of Syria's CW, reinstating the casus belli desired by the aggressors. www.activistpost.com/2014/02/the-us-takes-step-back-towards-its.html Meanwhile USA has had over a decade to destroy its CW and has not complied.

Washington Orchestrated Protests Are Destabilizing Ukraine, by Paul Craig Roberts. Get Russia is what it's all about, as always. Europe depends on Russian energy, willing to go slow, while Yanks damn the torpedoes. www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php

rt.com/usa/drone-strike-possible-citizen-401/ Obomber aides dream up test-case pretext for drone strike on unidentified US citizen who is supposedly directly attacking American citizens abroad while remaining in an area so remote as to be unreachable by all US military cogs, save drones. Somewhere in Unicornia, trial balloon last seen floating that direction.

US National Intel Director: Syria is Huge Magnet for Extremists, Some Aim to Attack US. Clapper says "75,000 to 110,000 rebels overall battling the Syrian government, some 26,000 are extremists, and about 7,000 of them foreigners from some 50 countries." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l80m6zeiP_E

Syrian anchor Elissar Moualla affronts opposition at Geneva talks with hard questions, tells of risks she takes in presenting the Syrian case of a government defending against terrorism. en.alalam.ir/news/1561037

CNN has cried "Wolf" Blitzer once too often. It's the same fallacy over and over. Because a crime is committed and reported by the opposition, Assad must be guilty (as @SarcasticSyrian would say before being silenced by Twitter again).
But each time it's a false flag. The massacres of Houla, Tremseh and Daraya were all committed by the same side that filmed them and uploaded them to the world media, as I took such pains to prove in the only video I ever made, "The Foreign Subversive ArmyMassacres its Human Shieldsin Daraya".
As I noted on Jan. 21, the latest Big Lie involves a "defector" who is married to an opposition figure. She left Syria 5 days into the revolution to start networking with Western human rights groups. The perfect profile of a typical FSA propaganda artist. And the feared Mukhabarat, the Ba'athist secret police, had no clue who their "Official Corpse Photographer" was? Does this little "Caesar" have any papers to prove he worked in Assad's prisons? Why would the Ba'athist secret police give a job photographing starved and tortured corpses to a known dissident and foreign agent??
How many people have disappeared in the thousands of square miles of Syria under the thumb of the brutal terrorist gangs, how many have died gruesome deaths at the hands of these sadistic madmen, for whom beheadings and cannibalism are just "all's fair in love and war"? Haven't we noticed by now what a sophisticated degree of know-how the terrorist death squads and their PR people have in false flag propaganda? The bandits themselves love cameras, they are always the first to post videos of their own crimes.

Strange, the Western newspapers are sprinkling their stories with clues that it's fake, as if they were testing how dumb we are. Could be useful to know how hard you have to try to be a plausible liar.

voiceofrussia.com/2014_01_23/Report-on-Assads-tortures-in-Syria-full-of-inconstistencies-expert-5602/ Photos that were shown appear to be doctored to hide identities of the dead - if they were opposition dissidents who died in prison, it would be the opposite, they'd try to identify them. It's like the Ghouta photos, none of the victims have names. I believe this is because they are victims of the terrorists themselves who are, in Moallem's words, the "blood soaked finger pointing at the Syrian Army."

The simple reason Iran was UNinvited was so the Syrians would be all alone, for Skull&Bones bully Kerry and his gang of thugs to beat up on them. prayersforsyria.com/geneva-ii-the-u-s-agenda-is-laid-bare/ Not a word of thanks for dismantling the CW, minions of the evil empire are indeed monsters, utterly without faith or honor. As for the Saudi sods, the only thing to do is topple those topheavy turtles.

Jarba is not just any nobody, he has the criminal record to qualify as the perfect slimeball, pliable patsy and kleptocrat. "His father also disowned him for setting up brothels, one in Damascus apparently. They put a weapons runner, pimp, brothel owner, drug smuggler and common street criminal into a suit and tie and in front of our eyes - magically transformed this degenerate into a diplomat and statesman." www.liveleak.com/view , main article english.al-akhbar.com/node/16463 Put such a reprobate in power in Syria and there may be no stone left upon another there. The Zionist bankster agenda could not be clearer. It might also indicate Saudi incompetence. Al-Akhbar reports he is the point man for Saudis trying to take over the SNC.

Putting criminal elements in power is an old trick of the imperialists. They installed the Mafia in Italy after WWII, and kleptocrats all throughout Eastern Europe after the fall of communism. They want corrupt, impoverished colonies, ruled by greedy, incompetent puppets, who gladly acquiesce in funneling the wealth of the country to the international banks for a pathetic reward.

Moallem: It is regrettable that seated amongst us are representatives of countries that have the blood of Syrians on their hands... Countries that shamelessly lecture us in democracy, in development and in progress whilst drowning in their own ignorance and medieval norms....their masks fell from their quivering faces, to reveal their perverse ambitions. A desire to destabilize and destroy Syria by exporting their national product: terrorism... how can so-called revolutionaries cannibalize a man’s heart and claim to promote freedom, democracy and a better life? ...
This is what happened in Adra, a place that most of you have not heard of but where the same alien monsters attacked: killing, looting, beheading, slaughtering, raping and burning people alive. You have heard nothing of this brutality for sure, yet you have heard of other places where the same heinous crimes were committed and where the same blood soaked finger was pointed at the Syrian Army and government...
This is what their masters ordered them to do, these countries that spearheaded the war against Syria, trying to increase their influence in the region with bribes and money, exporting human monsters fully soaked in abhorrent Wahabi ideology... this misery and destruction, which has engulfed Syria, has been made possible by the decision of Erdogan’s government to invite and host these criminal terrorists before they entered into Syria...
When all of this failed, America threatened to strike Syria, fabricating with her allies, Western and Arab, the story about the use of chemical weapons, which failed to convince even their own public, let alone ours... Democracy is imposed with fire, freedom with warplanes and human rights by human killing, because they have become accustomed to the world doing their bidding...
Syrians amongst us here, having been legitimized by foreign agendas, have played a contributing role as facilitators and implementers...Our people were being slaughtered while they were living in five star hotels; they opposed from abroad, met abroad betraying Syria and selling themselves to the highest foreign bidder...Where is your vision for this great country? ... I am certain that you have nothing and this is only too apparent in the areas that your mercenaries have occupied... Have you demonstrated your commitment to justice and human rights? No, you have enforced public executions and beheadings...
The West publicly claims to be fighting terrorism, whilst in fact it is covertly nourishing it... the Syrian people, like other people of the region, aspire to more freedom, justice and human rights... We have come to protect tolerant Islam that has been distorted, and to protect the Christians of the Levant... We have come to stop terrorism...
Nobody has the authority to grant or withdraw legitimacy from a president, a government, a constitution, a law or anything else in Syria except Syrians themselves... Today, in this gathering of Arab and Western powers, we are presented with a simple choice: we can choose to fight terrorism and extremism together and to start a new political process, or you can continue to support terrorism in Syria. Let us reject and isolate the black hands and the false faces, which publicly smile but covertly feed terrorist ideology, striking Syria today, but ultimately spreading to infect us all. This is the moment of truth and destiny; let us rise to the challenge."
Speaking truth to power. A real gem of a speech, every bit worth reading in its entirety.Videos of first day's speeches: syrianfreepress.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/video-speeches-at-the-geneva-2-conference-on-syria-by-walid-al-muallem-bashar-al-jaafari-sergey-lavrov-john-kerry-ban-ki-moon-ahmad-jarba-eng-fra-arab-esp/

5 Reasons to Reject Syria Torture Report as Untrue english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx The report fits the pattern of previous video and photo fakery by the opposition. Terrorists control large swathes of Syria and are perfectly capable of imprisoning and starving people, then using their photos as war propaganda. In fact, this is precisely what they have been doing since NATO death squads instigated the "revolution." It's exactly how they started this war, with fake reportage, and how they keep stoking it. Foreign Minister Moallem: "Heinous crimes were committed, and the blood soaked finger was pointed at the Syrian Army."

Yarmouk agreement fails as terrorist factions refuse to leave; Palestine sends officials to negotiate. Terrorists took the camp in December 2012, government besieging it since July 2013.www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx

Nationalist insurrection in Libya. Gaddafi's green flag is again floating over cities in Southern Libya as nationalists fight back against NATO puppet regime, which is carrying out airstrikes against the insurgents. http://www.voltairenet.org/article181846.html

www.cnn.com/2014/01/20/world/syria-torture-photos-amanpour/index.html Defector allegedly photographed thousands of dead bodies of victims of torture in Syrian prisons. Release of report by CNN perfectly timed for Geneva talks.
The CS Monitor is cautious pointing to the obvious agenda of the report, which was produced in just one week and may be highly exaggerated.
"This is a single source report, from an unidentified man, who is related by marriage ... to a similarly unidentified member of the "Syrian National Movement" who "left Syria five days after the civil war against the current Syrian regime had begun and established contact with international human rights groups." How interesting. Such plausible credentials for your typical opposition photo faking operation.
Paul Joseph Watson at infowars was quick to call it a PR stunt and asked why the "defector" was "happy to take photos of dead bodies for years before releasing them to be made public just 24 hours before the start of Geneva II." The judge and jury include such suspects as the BBC, C. Amanpour, and "the prosecutors of ex-Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic." The report was admittedly financed by the terrorist financier and imperial puppet state Qatar. www.infowars.com/cynical-new-pr-stunt-greases-skids-for-humanitarian-invasion-of-syria/
Tony Cartalucci reminds us that video-faked massacres have previously been strategically timed just before high-level international meetings on Syria. landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2014/01/us-feigns-horror-over-cooked-up-report.htmlTime will tell if this is just another outrageous instance of fake photos. If we ever get a chance to see them, that is.

Phil Greaves on Twitter:
Brown Moses is busy creating narratives to frame Hezbollah for the Ghouta attacks: his entire line of inquiry is built on false-premise.Why don’t Moses & his pro-Imperialist chums answer these fundamental questions:
Where are the victims bodies/burial site?
Why does the "YouTube evidence" show NO symptoms of Sarin?
Why would the SAA deploy CW days after a UN team arrived?
Who would have benefited via western "intervention"?
Why would an army already winning its chosen battles use CW?

What's the real story on starvation in Yarmouk camp? Opposition sources say different factions have the upper hand in different areas inside Yarmouk.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Yarmouk-Camp-In-the-Throe-by-Ahmad-Barqawi-Children_Children_Crime_Crime-140118-231.html The Palestinian refugee camp at Yarmouk in Damascus has been in the crossfire since takfiri terrorist troops invaded it in 2012, according to this narrative which also gives the Syrian Army a share of the blame for refugees' plight. "According to UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunnes, the latest PLO/UNRWA joint relief convoy could not make its way through to the camp after a bulldozer, provided by Syrian authorities to clear the road for the convoy, was targeted with direct gunfire followed by a mortar shell landing close to the UNRWA trucks, forcing them to retreat."

Palestinian Labor Minister Ahmad Majdalani said that the act of preventing relief from reaching Yarmouk Camp in Damascus by armed groups constitutes a war crime and use of Palestinians as hostages and human shields. http://sana.sy/eng/21/2014/01/14/522256.htm

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/5160/19/Kneel-or-starve-.aspx Egypt's newspaper of record printed a report blaming the Syrian government for the situation in Yarmouk, claiming it is blockaded as collective punishment against Palestinians who sympathized with the opposition or even with ordinary refugees. The camp's population has now dwindled to 30,000 from 500,000 at one time. The "camp" is actually an urban neighborhood of narrow streets and tall apartment buildings.

If Western media reports are to be believed, it is the Syrian government that is blockading the camp. Reading the conflicting reports, it sounds like the terrorist forces are also denying food supplies to Yarmouk now, because they say the pro-Assad faction within has got the upper hand and is denying food to opposition sympathizers. If that were true, the logical thing might seem for the pro-government faction to let the others leave, but then the terrorist blockade could become even worse. Being in Damascus, the camp occupies a militarily strategic location.

http://www.syrianews.cc/yarmouk-camp-palestine-damascus-suffering/ This pro-Assad site blames Hamas which being an Islamist movement has sided with the takfiris. It reports that in August, terrorists fleeing the army's advance on Ghouta and East Damascus entered Yarmouk neighborhood, while most of the original residents fled. The terrorists prevented the rest of them from leaving, keeping them as human shields. Meanwhile the government sealed the exits of the neighborhood. "Since then all attempts to lift the siege of the Camp from inside failed and all attempts to enter food and medicine to the besieged were shot at by the heavily armed terrorists inside... On Saturday, January 18, 2013, the first batch of humanitarian aid was delivered to the besieged Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees with the help of the UNRWA."

The opposition narrative is that pro-Assed forces control the camp both from the inside and the outside. This makes no sense. As usual, on inspection, their stories collapse from internal contradictions. Could the starvation be a result of disagreements between different rebel factions?

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=666174 Relief convoy reaches besieged Yarmouk following landmark agreement. Palestinian Authority Minister of Labor Ahmed Majdalani said that non-Palestinian armed factions are leaving the camp. Their departure will be followed by more aid convoys, while the evacuation of the sick, injured, and the elderly would begin today in collaboration with the Syrian Ministry of Social Affairs, which will provide shelters for the evacuees. Maan News is a major Palestinian media outlet.

http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-opposition-meets-decide-peace-talks-023353762.html Regarding Geneva II, the absurdity of the imperialist position is so pathetic and degenerate it boggles the mind. Their puppets have shown themselves to be barbarians, cannibals and criminal escapees from Saudi death row cages. These animals are now destroying each other in a power struggle, and refusing to come to talks. And Kerry keeps up with the same ridiculous mantra about a palaver that will remove Assad for a transition government. Truly, we are ruled by apes and parrots of the lowest sort. Their proposal is to install a vacuum, because vacuum is all they own between their ears.

This is how Ikhras on Twitter put it:
SNC to attend "peace talks" which means they check out of 5-star hotels in Doha, London & Paris & check-in to 5-star hotel in Geneva.
It's not the SNC that decided to attend Geneva 2, it was their paymasters that instructed them to do so.
SNC totally irrelevant in Syria & their presence, or lack thereof, in Geneva is also totally irrelevant.
Its not that the SNC has little influence or impact in Syria. It has absolutely no influence or impact in Syria. None whatsoever.

Kerry is on hands and knees begging the Syrian Nobody Committee to come to Geneva, yet major power Iran is not welcome. Let alone the Kurds, of course.

Fighting continues between ISIL/ISIS and other rebel groups. ISIS reported to take losses in Raqqa, but Edwark Dark in Aleppo reports, "ISIS is making gains & wreaking havoc across north Syria. Seems the opposition rebels can no longer contain the Frankenstein they created."
Meanwhile opposition figures and their western puppet-masters are making it a condition of Geneva 2 that Assad shall have no role in a transition government.

http://rt.com/news/syrian-electronic-army-skype-072/ Syrian Electronic Army hacks Skype, Twitter, with message "Don't use Microsoft emails (hotmail, outlook) they are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the government" in protest against US global spying.

Egypt has accused detained journalists from the Qatari-based Al-Jazeera television network of belonging to a "terrorist" group, saying they had ties with the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood, the prosecution said Tuesday. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=614922195210233

BEIRUT (AP) - The Syrian government evacuated some 5,000 people Sunday from an embattled industrial town near Damascus where al-Qaida-linked rebels have been battling government troops for more than two weeks, the state news agency said.
Opposition fighters from Jabhat al-Nusra, or the Nusra Front, swept into Adra northeast of the capital in mid-December, reportedly killing civilians, many of whom are members of the Alawite and Druse sects. Both minority communities largely support President Bashar Assad, who himself is an Alawite, against the primarily Sunni-led rebellion.
Shortly after the rebels pushed into Adra, Syrian soldiers surrounded the area and there has been heavy fighting there since.
On Sunday, Minister for Social Affair Kinda al-Shammat said more than 5,000 people were evacuated from the town. In a statement carried by the SANA state news agency, Shammat said the people have been moved to a safe place, and the ministry has established operation rescue rooms to offer aid and support.

http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/sandbox/security-arc-forms-amidst-mideast-terror-0 Sharmine Narwani on the alliance against the new Assassins: Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran form a security belt against Takfiri terrorism; Egypt, Turkey and Jordan likely to join them - and schizophrenic US policymakers too? Jaysh al-Islam (Islamic Front) now claims 50,000 troops - the real War on Terror is on. Thanks Mssrs. Bush and Bandar for "bringing 'em on!" Could this topple the crazy house of Saud?
One hopes she's right. But I think the US is trying to have it both ways, playing fireman and arsonist at once, grandstanding by sending aid to fight the terrorists while letting its Saudi puppets arm them. Also you have the different approaches in the US power structure between the Brzezinski-Obama clique vs the Zio-cons. That's how Obama can make a deal with Iran and then the Congress can veto it, another way of having it both ways.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/26/world/middleeast/us-sends-arms-to-aid-iraq-fight-with-extremists.html?_r=0 "The United States is quietly rushing dozens of Hellfire missiles and low-tech surveillance drones to Iraq to help government forces combat an explosion of violence by a Qaeda-backed insurgency that is gaining territory in both western Iraq and neighboring Syria."
Hah, how quietly is that when it's the top story in the NYT and Wash Post? Create a need and fill it. Instigate terror and sell the war on terror. Will people catch on? Obviously, nobody would need the Evil Empire's God-damned weapons if it weren't for their accursed terror legions.

"Saudi Hariri." Saudi-financed, half-Saudi Lebanese ex-PM Saad Hariri instigates terrorism against Syria and Hezbollah. His ex-minister just blown up in a car bombing in Beirut. I've wondered before if Saad Hariri was complicit in the car-bombing ﻿murder of his own father Rafik Hariri, whereby he inherited leadership of the Future Movement. More on Saudi-Saadi link here: http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/4155 and http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/05/saad-hariri-aides-western-syria.html "Saudi" Hariri was born and raised in Saudi Arabia and the Saudis always bail out his bankrupt billionaire business empire. Hezbollah's statement on today's bombing is that it's part of the recent wave of bombings -- that would be part of the Saudi terrorist offensive that is now being rolled out by ISIL in Syria, too.

Syria was immediately blamed for the car-bombing murder of PM Rafik Hariri in 2005, which forced the abrupt withdrawal of the Syrian Army from Lebanon. Rafik was sympathetic to Syria and an opponent of Israel, whom Hezbollah (and I) then blamed for Rafik's killing. Today's bombing could be another false flag by the bankrupt Saad Hariri aimed at blaming Hezbollah and Syria, and perhaps eliminating the slain ex-minister and economic adviser Shatah in some settling of accounts. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2013/Dec-27/242412-profile-of-former-minister-mohammad-shatah.ashx As a moderate within the Future Movement who worked with Rafik Hariri, Shatah would have opposed Saad Hariri's fomenting of sectarian extremism.
Western media are hastening to point the finger for the latest bombing at Assad and Hezbollah, and Hezbollah is being tried for Rafik Hariri's murder in The Hague. None of these entities are interested in the Cui Bono question, unsurprisingly, as they themselves were also beneficiaries of the removal of the great figure of Rafik Hariri.
As in most false-flag ops, the perpetrators are the first ones to point the finger with their ready-made accusations.
As a US-trained member of the Future Movement, Shatah was critical of Iran, Hezbollah, and Assad, but they had nothing to gain from his removal, and much to lose from heightened sectarian violence. Unlike S. Hariri, Shatah spoke against the terrorist war on Syria and against sectarian bloodshed in Lebanon. Why is it always the moderates who are killed? You know the answer.
Saad Hariri is saying those those who carbombed his father are also behind the latest blast. He should know.
Historically, patricide and fratricide have been fairly frequent occurrences in power struggles within dynasties.

http://eaworldview.com/2013/12/week-past-week-ahead-syria-regimes-deadly-bombing-insurgent-victories/ SSG progpaganda organ: Insurgents claim victories in Damascus and Aleppo in major Takfiri offensive. "Rebels" claim they "captured the Kindi headquarters and barracks in Aleppo, after a protracted siege of the former hospital," and show a video blowing it up with a truck bomb. Government and Syrian patriot sources say terrorists did not take the site but lost 400 fighters, and that Kindi was built by Syrian government to provide free cancer treatment, was 4th largest cancer treatment center in Middle East until it was blown up in yesterday's suicide bombing. Government estimates damage at 1.5 billion SYP (US$13 million).
Meanwhile, US vetoes Iran participation in Geneva 2.

http://m.state.gov/md219062.htm US State Dep't condemns attacks by ISIS (ISIL) in Iraq and claims to be allied with Iraq against the terrorists. "We further call on regional leaders to take active measures to police the funding and recruitment for these groups, including ISIL and the al-Nusrah front, and deter the flow of foreign fighters into Syria, many of whom later conduct suicide bombings against innocent civilians in Iraq." Send State a copy of the Unconventional Warfare manual from the "Defense" Dep't.

http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-syria-human-rights-report-20131219,0,2851436.story "Syria rebel group accused of kidnapping, torture and executions" - LA Times cites ISIS kidnapping of FSA journalist. "On Thursday, Amnesty International issued an 18-page report accusing ISIS of a range of abuses, including kidnappings, torture and summary executions, that may rise to the level of war crimes. Electric shocks and frequent beatings are some of the methods mentioned in the report." AI however also accused the Syrian government, claiming that "enforced disappearances were systematically employed to silence the opposition".

For a selection of Matt Van Dyke tweets exposing the Syrian Support Group see https://twitter.com/Partisangirl . The SSG "charity" raises tax-deductible donations ﻿allegedly for humanitarian purposes, but in fact is a US-gov't operated conduit to buy arms for Al-Qaeda units to carry out humanitarian atrocities in Syria.

Takfiri gangs terrorize city of Adra, massacre civilians especially minorities and government supporters; Syrian army moving to liberate the city. Estimated casualties run from 15 dead (Reuters/SOHR) to over 100. Families were mostly butchered with knives (according to twitter.com/edwardedark) or even thrown into bread ovens. ﻿http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adra_massacre On 11 December, the rebel Islamic Front and Al-Nusra Front groups infiltrated the industrial area of the town of Adra, northeast of Damascus, attacking buildings housing workers and their families. The rebels targeted Alawites, Druze, Christians and Shiites, killing them on a sectarian basis. Some people were shot while others were beheaded. ﻿ Families butchered with knives or even thrown into bread ovens. ﻿The killings lasted into the next day. In all some 19 to 40 minority civilians were massacred.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/syrias-war-the-next-phase/5361499 Excellent analysis of next step in US strategy. "Moderate" FSA was always a mere fig leaf for support for extremist terrorists and for eventual direct military aggression. US now charading a rift with Saudis while selling them 15,000 anti-tank missiles that could be used ﻿to keep pushing the Takfiri guerrilla war as leverage for change to a puppet regime.

Dec 9

https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16 Syrian Electronic Army reveals incriminating messages from their hack of accounts of CIA terrorist "revo film-maker" Matt Van Dyke, such as "According to @Matt_VanDyke using CWs on children would be acceptable to the rebels if it would trigger intervention. pic.twitter.com/jxje4fthAw ". Great stuff.

Saudi and Israeli military officials are running a ‘military operation center’ in Jordan in which they mastermind plots to destroy Syria, Syrian deputy foreign minister Faisal Muqdad has said. http://en.alalam.ir/news/1540170

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24963241 "I have a Nightmare." Albania shuns Syria chemical weapons destruction. Albanian Prime Minister -- a function that is an ex officio US puppet since the fall of the communist government -- tried to accept US request to destroy CW in Albania, but was unable to due to a violent public outcry. Albania is a US covert operations base, so bringing the CW there would have made it very easy to funnel the toxins to US-backed terrorists and Gladio-type operations worldwide. Belgium and France are also named as possible venues. Belgium of course is the seat of NATO so that would be about as bad. France also has ample deep state capabilities.

The proper course is to allow the Syrian government itself to dispose of the materials -- which are mostly precursors or unweaponized ingredients -- once the war winds down. Syria has already shown itself to extraordinarily serious and trustworthy in the matter.

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2013/11/syria-us-starts-seeing-the-real-alternatives.html "Ford, the United States ambassador to Syria, told the activists on the sidelines that the emerging reality presented them with unpalatable options: accept that the current government could continue in power longer than they would like, or face the continued rise of extremist jihadist groups that have terrified residents, clashed with rival insurgents and undermined Western support."

http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_10_22/Syria-opposition-chief-to-attend-Geneva-talks-if-Assad-leaves-power-8085/ The SNC ﻿pretend to the title "head of the opposition" -- but have been rejected by almost all the rebel groups.﻿ They say they won't go to Geneva unless Assad's removal is a precondition, or they would "lose credibility." What credibility? The posture is even more incredible. Assad could only be removed by force now -- and the SNC doesn't have any. No doubt the wags are having a lot of fun with this preposterous stance in Damascus cafés. It's beyond absurd. But then, they are just hand-fed parrots at the feast of the vultures.
When a head has no support and retreats to the rear, it can only be called a tail.

Syria24English - Assad interview with al-Mayadeen:
Saudi Arabia is implementing the policies of USA faithfully. We negotiate with the operation chief, not the implementers.
Carrying weapons converts any opposition to insurgency or terrorism.
Who is looking for sincerity from the American administrations, is deluded. The United States did not do anything for the success of the peace process.
Syria has stopped chemical weapons production since 1997.
The failure of projects planned against us is in itself a victory.
The reason of Erdogan’s positions on Syria is his affiliation to Muslim Brotherhood.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24039309 Quirico described captors - "They follow whoever promises them a future, gives them weapons, gives them money to buy cell phones, computers, clothes." Treated prisoners like animals. They "take no interest in anything other money and weapons - spending entire days lounging on mattresses" watching old movies and wrestling shows on TV. Such groups, he said, were trusted by the West but were in truth profiting from the revolution to "take over territory, hold the population to ransom, kidnap people and fill their pockets".

It is reported that Imran "The Libyan", Commander of the Armed Groups attempting to storm the Central Prison of Aleppo, has now gained entry as a long-term guest, and is showing off a complimentary pair of hand and leg shackles ...

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/10/11/how-syria-unlocked-americas-dark-closet/ According to Gordon Duff, the CW inspectors in Syria have noted that the government's stockpiles obviously haven't been touched for years, that the rebels do have stockpiles, and the only way to protect Syria against CW attacks is a victory by the SAA over the rebels. All of this is being hushed up in the media while CNN's Amanpour is trying to accuse Assad of hiding CW.

The scapegoating starts... Only 36% believe the Syrian government used CW in Ghouta. HRW changes its tack and writes up a traffic ticket on the rebels for once. HRW and WSJ are cashing the blank check given them by Erdogan and shifting blame onto Turkey -- after mercilessly using that country. http://www.moonofalabama.org/2013/10/syria-turkey-blamed-for-regime-change-failure.html Did the Turks see they might get jilted and try to point the finger at the rebels, by indicting some of them recently for trying to obtain chemicals for making sarin? But now Bloomberg publishes Kaszeta saying sarin isn't at all easy to make, so it had to come from military sources, like NATO... or Libya via Turkey... The Turks are caught out in the cold again, meanwhile Saudis invite Israel into their tent to keep warm. One European diplomat even blames "Assad regime hardliners" for "turning the opposition into Al Qaeda." Or maybe it was the Russians or Martians. Any excuse, just don't let the cat out of the bag that it was another Gladio-style perverted covert operation by the US.
Moon of Alabama is optimistic that the US attitude to Syria is gradually changing, but how can it when it's dictated by Israel? I posted there,
The West is embarrassed to be caught with its pants down while cross dressing as Al Qaeda, but that won't change its perverted habits. The British started up Saud and Wahhab in business over 200 years ago, to debilitate and isolate the Muslim world by infecting it with a troglodyte ideology -- like a kind of bio-psychological warfare, using humans as viruses. After a discreet pause, after Syria's CW are destroyed, they'll be back. How can they resist. Look what a smashing success the destruction of Libya was.
Israel has been able to stay in the background while its puppets do the dirty work and get mud on their faces, so it can continue on its merry way plotting the next trap for Syria.

Who attacked Ghouta? The most detailed analysis I've seen of the Ghouta attacks is here: http://whoghouta.blogspot.com/2013/10/suggesting-scenarios.html . The author(s) collected and analyzed a lot of evidence. It's now at the stage of suggesting scenarios, whereby the blogger notes that "the rebel attack theory seems far more likely than the regime attack theory." Contributor Charles Wood has supplied a coherent false-flag scenario in the comments.
"An analysis of all evidence relating to the chemical attack in Ghouta on August 21st 2013 - An online collaborative effort. Twitter: @WhoGhouta "

So-called "rebels" have targeted schools and teachers -- reminds one how America's zionist-powered death squads killed off Iraq's top scientists. Damage to Syrian education sector - 100 billion Syrian liras. In US$, about 750 million, equal to $30,000 per person - and that's only the education sector. Dirty war is asymmetrical war, costing US little, Saudi and Qatar a bit more but they don't know what to do with their petrodollars anyway. http://www.syrianews.cc/100-billion-syrian-liras-damage-education-sector/

So the sarin or whatever it was didn't come out of a rebel field kitchen after all? Kind of makes sense. They didn't build most of their weapons either, they were given them... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-10/no-you-can-t-make-sarin-in-your-kitchen.html Article by CW expert Dan Kaszeta, who is also sceptical of the UN report, see entry for Sept. 23. However, his estimate that tons of sarin may have been used on Aug. 21 is way off, in my opinion.

We already know Saudi princes are part of the Zionist world order, in spite of their obligatory gestures of sympathy for the Palestinians. Now they are thinking of coming out of the closet http://rt.com/news/israel-saudi-alliance-us-950/ See also blog entry here for Sept. 1, 2013.

Libya now has the largest unsecured stockpile of weapons in the world, with millions of tons of arms unaccounted for. They include 3,000-8,000 so-called Manpads - Man Portable Air Defence Systems - portable missile systems which are a threat to all types of aircraft, including civilian passenger planes. These surface-to-air missiles, which are easy to use and easy to hide, are the weapon of choice for groups like al-Qaeda. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24451180

Afraid of rabbit holes? UN investigators STILL making excuses not to go to Khan al Assal - site of a rebel CW attack, which UN was scheduled to visit at Syrian government request, when they were diverted to Ghouta on Aug. 21 http://www.innercitypress.com/syria1bankhan100513.html

Syria: The Flood - 57 minute documentary Published on Oct 3, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMCWVQ3avWg
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The first few minutes of The Flood are an absolute must-watch. The film opens with interviews from participants in the early stages of protest, telling how the poor and desperate were paid to go to demonstrations, how the numbers were greatly exaggerated, how snipers shot people and police to provoke an explosion. To create the impression of a general strike, ﻿they forced shopkeepers to close their shops at gunpoint. ﻿Later testimony covers the funding by Saudis, Qataris and others, and some of the criminal acts of the brigands such as kidnapping, rape, car bombs, smuggling weapons, killing prisoners, stealing cars at gunpoint to sell them. They advance to destroying infrastructure, hospitals, plundering storehouses, homes and shops, until the inhabitants fled as refugees. Dismantling factories and selling the machines to Turkey to buy arms, which they smuggled into Syria over back roads. Some of the weapons received were from Saudi Arabia or Israel. Gangsters taking Islamic names to get funds from Saudis, who come and lecture them on Jihad, the houris, and pay them princely wages. Mossad instructors trained brigades on how to take out Syrian air defenses. Now the goal was to destroy the Syrian Arab Army, to allow Israel and the USA to invade Syria without resistance. Saudi emirs gave them orders to attack military bases, airports and missile sites and plunder the weapons and missiles. They were given complete details of the targets and instructions how to attack. The missiles were taken to a hiding place where Turkish and Libyan experts were there to advise. While dismantling one missile to get the explosive, it and 2 other missiles exploded, causing great damage, which the rebels blamed on a Syrian Army helicopter barrel bomb. Their work helped Israel target the research center near Damascus, an unprovoked act of aggression. But the rebels couldn't succeed on their own so the Zionist axis had to intervene directly to destroy Syria, the last citadel of Arab resistance. In the final minutes the witnesses express immense regret, "We received money from abroad to destroy our homeland with our own hands." "We thought we were doing the best for our homeland, but it turns out we were destroying it." "They deceived us in the name of religion."

It's getting more and more obvious that what We the People need is Electronic Direct Democracy, where the citizens vote directly on major issues via the Internet.

Last month up to 90% of emails to Congress were against a war on Syria, in spite of the massive war propaganda, but the President and probably the Senate were still ready to go into that mad excursion. Practically Putin and Assad saved the US from itself.

This month 100% of the country does not want the government shut down, but that's what happens anyway.

This regime is utterly dysfunctional. I love the Constitution, but our "representative democracy" is only representing special interests. (Like Big Pharma and Big Insurance, AKA Obamacare.)

We the People need the vote. The jerks in Washington obviously don't know how to do it for us.

Businesses are already making us do everything for ourselves. Wipe your own windshield at the gas station, scan your own groceries, get your own medical advice on the Internet, make cash withdrawals from an ATM, and push buttons on the phone until you get a recorded message.
They are outsourcing everything to the customer. Washington can do the same.

Congress had an approval rating of just 17%. Get the message, boys. It's not working. (That 17% has dropped to 10% with the shutdown.)

As for Obamacare, one poll shows only 17% believe it will help them. It sure won't help our family. We'll have to pay way more for insurance and on top of that, supposedly we are getting a big helping hand or subsidy to "save" us a lot of bucks on the deal and give us a big "discount". So the medical industry must be double-dipping, taking a chunk out of our hide and another bite from the government -- which is really us, too!
They want taxpayers to pay 10% of their income for this insurance, and the government is going to collect another 10% for the "subsidy." 20% of income for "health care"? Is getting sick what this country is all about? Like a parking lot with all disabled parking spaces.
In other more egalitarian countries, health insurance only costs a couple percent of your paycheck.

Do the math. Where is the money going? This will bankrupt the middle class to subsidize the super rich to enlarge their yachts.
Western medicine started out centuries ago bleeding patients to death. Now they are going to bleed this nation to death.

The problem that Obamacare was supposed to solve is that a lot of people don't have health insurance. No mystery why. They just can't afford it. The solution is to make health care affordable, not to force people to buy insurance they can't afford. Of course, that's why it's called the Affordable Care Act, these names go by contraries. The way the Patriot Act was really the Traitors Act. Orwell and all that.

People often ask me, what can we do about all these evils your books expose? I answer there is very little we can do, except spread the word until we get a critical mass of concerned citizens. And that's what we're starting to get now. The so-called silent majority is fed up and getting pretty mad, and they want to be heard.

So the time is come when there is something we can do. We should push for E-democracy, and enfranchise the people so they CAN do something.

Oct. 1

Now the US government has shut down, I wonder how Obama would really have carried out airstrikes that neither Congress nor the military wanted?

I am working on a short and hopefully quick e-book to incorporate the findings of Mother Agnes on the faked videos of the Ghouta attacks, along with other indications of a false flag, and some background on the war. I am uploading a slightly later version of the ISTEAMS report (Sept. 18) here http://www.progressivepress.com/dox/AgnesVids/

Partisan Girl: "If you want an end to totalitarian regimes, then end the reason for their existence, which is a reaction to imperialism/occupation." "The US govt and MSM concentrated on Sarin, never mentioned VX. Perhaps because Sarin is far more simple to produce chemically than VX." "The FSA accuses SAA of targeting them before ISIS , Weren't they the ones that said "we'll use Nusra now against SAA and target them later?"

Hypocrisy is certainly the word for it. CW are not nice, but nuclear weapons are clearly worse. So why does the "international community" concentrate on eradicating CW while leaving nukes alone? Could the reason just be that chemical weapons are technically feasible for smaller nations that want to be independent, much moreso than nuclear? Adding to the hypocrisy, the US and Russia still keep large stocks of CW. The whole charade smacks of rape. Lavrov insists the USNC resolution has no loophole for the use of force. But if it disarms Syria, that is more than a loophole, it is a highway to aggression in the future.

MadJack re Obama's support of Al-Qaeda: "U.S. Constitution - Article 3 Section 3: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."

Twitter blogger Marcus Papadopoulos: "The Islamist terrorist attacks carried out in Kenya and Pakistan over the weekend are experienced in Syria on a daily basis."

Sharmine Narwani weighs in on CW false flag. Her analysis of UN data shows zero sarin found in environmental samples in an area where people were allegedly gassed -- a scientific impossibility. We already noted hair samples all tested negative. The ghoulish conclusion: victims were injected with sarin by provocateurs, or at least, were moved around like theatre props. http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/sandbox/questions-plague-un-report-syria Further, the doctors and others the UN team depended on were biased members of the opposition. "The UN team found no traces of Sarin on the 140mm rocket identified as the source of the alleged CW attack - or in its immediate environment." The report itself notes, "Fragments and other evidence have clearly been handled/moved prior to the arrival of the investigation team... During the time spent at these locations, individuals arrived carrying other suspected munitions indicating that such potential evidence is being moved and possibly manipulated.”
The conclusions based on missile trajectories by "Human Rights Watch" are completely debunked. Casualty figures are all over the map, and the UN team did not see a single dead body, they only tested survivors -- who were pre-selected by the local FSA command.
"A senior United Nations official who deals directly with Syrian affairs has told Al-Akhbar that the Syrian government had no involvement in the alleged Ghouta chemical weapons attack: "Of course not, he (President Bashar al-Assad) would be committing suicide.” "

American CW expert Dan Kaszeta is cited. "Generally, loss of consciousness is considered to be a very grave sign in nerve agent poisoning, happening shortly before death. How is it 78% of the patients had lost consciousness?" http://strongpointsecurity.co.uk/site/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/D-Kaszeta-Comments-on-UN-Report.pdf Eerily enough, one hypothesis arising from Mother Agnes' observations is that victims may have been sedated to appear dead, and to move them between locations. That would also explain why in one video, an allegedly dead man is receiving an injection (possibly a dose of sarin).

Destroying chemical weapons is expensive, and Syria doesn't have the funds to destroy its stocks. Solution -- Israel pays Syria to destroy its own CW as well. Israeli citizens can't complain about toxic incinerators in their backyard. Everybody happy. Now how to get rid of the 3,000 tons of CW the US has been dawdling over for 20 years?

Most of the videos referenced in the report by ISTEAM / Mother Agnes were suppressed by Youtube, whether due to graphic content or because Youtube is just another piece of the military-industrial-media complex, we don't know. In any case, 40 of the videos have been saved and have now been uploaded to this site at this link. http://www.progressivepress.com/dox/AgnesVids/ They are in FLV format and can only be downloaded, no streaming video software is yet available.

This video identifies several "actors" who are haranguing the camera about the CW victims are known leaders of extremist FSA factions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT77xkGcNqM It then goes on to expose other FSA or SNC leaders as American political operatives.

UN Report (page 18): Around 90% of blood and urine samples tested positive for sarin. Only 3 hair samples were taken, all tested negative. So how did the gas get inside their bodies but not on their bodies? Another indication of fabrication?
Anyway who believes the UN, they are paid players in the US monkey show.

The report's strongest feature for assigning blame is the claim that two rockets were found, supposedly of a government type, fired from government-held areas. They are improving their fakery technique. At Khal al Assal the rockets were clearly of rebel manufacture.

Assad-Kucinich interview on Fox News Sept. 19 Syrian time, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bajWYPvBiE&feature=youtu.be
Transcript http://sana.sy/eng/21/2013/09/19/503275.htm The essence is that Syria has joined the CW convention and will comply with the mechanisms, i.e. to destroy its CW, but carrying this out is an expensive process, costing about $1 billion, it could take more than a year. Also Syria has suggested this step before, it is not a new idea coming from the threat of airstrikes. The biggest problem facing Syria will not only be the reconstruction, but the threat of contamination by the alien Takfiri ideology, which would destroy the fabric of Syria's pluralistic society.

Russian-proposed deal with US: no strike if Syria disarms and destroys its chemical weapons.
Comment I posted to Reuters,
"Putin knew the CW attack was by the US-backed rebels. So why is he agreeing to disarm the victim, Syria? How about disarming the aggressor, the US? Would Obama do that without consulting Congress?
Assad should put the Russian deal to his parliament or to his people on a referendum. Remember, Iraq and Libya were destroyed not because they had WMD, but because they had none, no deterrent. Same game plan for Syria."

In fact the deal only has teeth if Syria swallows the bait. The only sanctions on Syria for not agreeing are action through the UN, which would probably involve a Russian veto, and a unilateral strike by Obama.

Syria is supposed to disarm in less than a year, because the banksters can't wait to plunder their next colony, they need the money bad.
Hoping to pressure Assad into a hasty error, the agreement gives Syria just one week to provide details of its CW stocks.

Newsmax poll: 86% against military strike, only 72% support Putin's plan. A difference of 14% - how many of them agree with me against disarming Syria? http://www.newsmax.com/surveys/results/id/90 Or do they just not like Putin? Newsmax itself seems to be opposing the war on Syria as a way of getting at Obama.

http://www.handsoffsyria.org/ The war in Syria is not a “civil war.” It is a battle between the sovereign people and government of Syria and rented armies of foreign-sponsored terrorists. These so-called “rebels,” many of whom are directly connected to al-Qaeda, are backed by Western and Gulf Arab governments who seek to replace Syria’s secular, nationalist government with a brutal theocracy serving the needs of the international oil cartel.

Getting the Truth Outta Ghouta.
Plus, A Review of the Best Stories on the Syrian Crisis

"Syrians in Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack!" http://original.antiwar.com/dale-gavlak/2013/08/30/syrians-in-ghouta-cla... It was an amazing break as the story relayed by two AP stringers, Dale Gavlak and Yahya Ababneh, made it at least into the alternative media. The Nobel committee should take away Obama's peace prize and give it to these two reporters!

There are interesting aspects to the story. One that will be widely ignored is the Saudi role in financing terrorism. It points up very clearly how the Saudis really are the fourth leg of the imperial throne, along with the US, UK, and Israel. They are key players -- The Rockefeller-Rothschild rule is built as much on oil as on banks.

Yet the ethnic fallacy fools us into thinking they are, after all, Arabs and Muslims of a sort, and to count them on that "side" of the chessboard. Blunder! In fact, since ibn Saud and Sheikh Wahhab were recruited and set up in business by the British empire in the 18th century, their descendants have been its staunch pillars. They helped overthrow the Turks in WWI, saved Britain in WWII, and play along with the Zionist occupation of Palestine. They provided the patsies for the 9/11 hijacking myth. They fund the subversion of Islam into a fanatical ideology repellent to the civilized world, they supply funds, arms and fanatical foot soldiers for the destruction of Syria, Egypt and the rest of the Muslim world. It is a very big role they play.

It's time to stop giving the Saudi oligarchy a free pass and to start giving them a fair 50/50 share of the abuse rendered unto Israel. The same goes for the British puppet Qatar, of course, and all their ilk throughout the world. Blaming only Israel and "the Jews" is falling into the divide-and-conquer trap that has been set for us by the Zionists themselves, as explained in the recent Progressive Press release, The Money Power.

LIHOP, meet MIHOP

Another intriguing detail is how the rebel sources claim the sarin explosion was an accident that happened because they didn't even know what sort of weapons they were. How plausible is that?

One possibility is that this is a damage control excuse. We don't know what questions Yahya Ababneh put to them, what they thought he already knew. But if the local people were already accusing the rebels of setting off the attack, certainly the best they could do was to point the finger elsewhere and try to count themselves among the unwitting victims.

Yet we can't rule out that some of the rank and file might indeed have been in the dark. With any false flag operation, there is a need to limit the number of people in the know. For 9/11, the controllers had tight-lipped professionals install the explosives, but in Syria it's field conditions with rag-tag amateurs. So perhaps only a few politically reliable commanders were in the know. The low-ranking soldiers who allegedly blew themselves up might very well have been patsies. One mole within the ranks could fix the weapons to go off in the patsy rebel hands.

At all events, all the rebels would be at pains to disperse any suspicions of a planned false flag. So the accident story could be the line they were to give out.

This was far from the first rebel use of CW in Syria, and each time they've tried to pin it on Assad. Blaming the government for their own killings is something the FSA does on Youtube every day, and it doesn't seem to bother them or their supporters at all.

Of course, most of the rebels are not professional weapons experts, and there have already been a number of reports of FSA irregulars blowing themselves up making car bombs and the like.

Perhaps it WAS planned to happen accidentally on purpose, providing plausible deniability for those directly involved. A new meaning of LIHOP? Could there have been so much effort to hide US and Saudi provenance through the back channels that it was not possible to deliver detailed instructions? After all, if the instructions came to light that would be very damning for the USA. So here you have an alternate design -- maximum plausible deniability and low profile, and be ready to jump on it and pull the trigger the moment an accident happens.

The purpose of these incidents, as Takis Fotopoulos points out, is to overcome the overwhelming opposition to the new war in the USA and UK. I'm overjoyed to see that it has not worked, with 91% of Americans polled opposing the war, although only a minority of them would give a false flag operation as a reason.

Vladimir Putin stated baldly that the attack was designed to provoke a reaction by the US that would come to the aid of the rebels. Oddly, RT.com didn't seem to pick up the Gavlak-Ababneh exposé, but Voice of Russia did, and Iran's Press TV covered it more than once. (Russia Today did post an early op-ed by our friend Wm. Engdahl debunking the accusations against Assad, http://rt.com/op-edge/syria-gas-attack-chemical-propaganda-796/ .) Even the Daily Kos, historically fiercely opposed to the 9/11 false flag narrative, carried the story.

Referring to Syria, Zbig Brzezinski noted that it's getting harder for the empire to control public opinion. http://www.storyleak.com/brzezinski-global-political-awakening-making-sy... Zbig to the CFR powwow in 2010, "To put it bluntly: in earlier times, it was easier to control one million people than to physically kill one million people; today, it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people."

So, everybody, let's keep on resisting the brainwashing! It's a lot more fun than getting killed!

It certainly doesn't look accidental!
One comment is made that Assad's forces could have faked the footage. But Syrian army had no motive to carry out such an attack, absolutely on the contrary, and we have seen the US preparing this scenario for over a year. Anyway FSA rebels regularly film and post videos of their own barbarities, that is the kind of madmen they are.

PressTV also carried a story by a survivor of chemical weapons attacks in the Iran-Iraq war, Prof. Marandi, who notes the parallel - the US promoted the use of chemical weapons and blamed it on the victims.

On Twitter, Webster Tarpley reminded us that Turkish police arrested FSA members in the possession of sarin gas back in May, 2013. According to Reuters, "Turkish newspapers had reported that 12 people from Syria's al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front who allegedly had been planning an attack inside Turkey and were in possession of 2 kg (4.5 pounds) of sarin, had been detained in Adana." http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/30/us-syria-crisis-turkey-idUSBRE94T0YO20130530

Bodansky pieces together the plan. The chemical weapons attack would be the provocation for a US-led bombing campaign which would take out Syrian Army assets, paving the way for a rebel attack on Damascus. Tell-tale detail: A week before Aug. 21 preparations started in Turkey to mobilize massive arms shipments for the rebels:

"On August 13-14, 2013, Western-sponsored opposition forces in Turkey started advance preparations for a major and irregular military surge....an imminent escalation in the fighting due to “a war-changing development” which would, in turn, lead to a US-led bombing of Syria... The opposition forces had to quickly prepare their forces for exploiting the US-led bombing in order to march on Damascus and topple the Bashar al-Assad Government, the senior commanders explained... Indeed, unprecedented weapons distribution started in all opposition camps in Hatay Province on August 21-23, 2013...
"Opposition reports that there was distinct stench during the attack suggest that it could have come from the “kitchen sarin” used by jihadist groups (as distinct from the odorless military-type sarin)."

Bodansky ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yossef_Bodansky ) already had good insights on Aug. 22, athttp://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Middle-East/Could-the-Chemical-Attack-in-Ghouta-be-the-Markale-of-the-Syrian-War.html
FSA units began an offensive on Aug. 17 which fizzled.
"By August 19 and 20, 2013, the FSA units were surrounded in three villages not far from the Israeli border.
"An attempt to use an Indian UNDOF patrol as human shield failed. The FSA commanders were now (ie: as of late August 21, 2013) pleading for massive reinforcements and an air campaign to prevent their decimation.
"Meanwhile, on August 19, 2013, in Ghouta, more than 50 local opposition fighters and their commanders laid down their arms and switched sides.
"Hence, the last thing the Assad Administration would do is commit atrocities against the Ghouta area and the local population which had just changed sides so dramatically. For the opposition, fiercely avenging such a betrayal and petrifying other would-be traitors is a must."

So it's not just about bombing Syria but paving the way for the rebels. Now that momentum has been lost, with Congress not voting until Sep. 9th, the rebel victory in this harebrained scheme seems terribly remote. Some Congressmen may vote Nay for this reason alone, not out of sympathy for Syria.

Over at the freerepublic, which a decade ago was a hornet's nest for any 9/11 Truther venturing to post there, skepticism about the Obomber regime's fairy tale abounds. One Nick Carraway has posted the Gavlak article here. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3060741/posts . He comments, "The rebels are al quaeda terrorists. Is it possible that these terrorists used weapons of terror? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I guess it’s possible."

Chess-player Putin: Check to your Queen. An amazing story in the EU Times reports that Russia will attack Saudi Arabia if the US attacks Syria. Tit for tat and Russia will win the exchange. http://www.eutimes.net/2013/08/putin-orders-massive-strike-against-saudi-arabia-if-west-attacks-syria/How credible is the threat? Saudis are worried. The US and Russia never attack each other directly, only through proxies. The US has never lifted a finger when Russia attacked a smaller country, and Saudi Arabia doesn't have many friends. The sheikhs are more useful to the empire than Israel, but they don't enjoy the same status.
Reports on the attempts by the bandit Bandar to blackmail Pres. Putin.
Also reminds of the Britam case in Jan. '13 where a hacked email revealed a false-flag plan to spirit a CW shell into Homs, Syria to be blamed on Assad. The CW plot has been cooking for a while!
There is also a link to a story about the "real reason" for the war on Syria: Qatar wants to build a gas pipeline to Turkey and Europe through Jordan and Syria; Assad stands in the way. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-16/mystery-sponsor-weapons-and-money-syrian-rebels-revealed The Qatari pipeline would threaten Russia's commanding position in the supply of gas to Europe.
The article ends with a reference to the posting of a video of the CW massacre a day before it happened...http://www.infowars.com/video-footage-of-chemical-weapons-attack-uploaded-before-it-happened/Mahwish ZK ‏@MahwishKD Don't remember a red line in #Vietnam. I think it was ORANGE! #HandsOffSyria

Syria’s permanent representative to the UN Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari said that US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron “climbed to the top of the tree and don’t know how to get down,” which is why they needed a vote by Parliament and Congress to get them down again.

And then of course there is Syria's neighbor who is keeping so mum all this time - little Israel, working away at their Greater Israel Project. Don't let them GIP US!

Land Destroyer ‏@LandDestroyer: "US plans to spin UN conclusions re: #Syria - focus on whether sarin was used or not to green light attack - NOT who actually used it."
The UN will do the same. Will sound effects carry the day, or are people catching on? It will be a Big Lie either way. Some say they'll go ahead even if nobody buys the story.

Corbett Report 279. http://www.corbettreport.com/episode-279-who-is-really-behind-the-syrian-war/Corbett identifies two long-standing plans to disrupt the Middle East - Wesley Clark's revelation of the Pentagon plan to attack 7 Muslim nations in 5 years; and the old Israeli or Bernard Lewis plan to balkanize the Middle East. He and Engdahl then discuss pipeline politics: Iran, Iraq, and Syria plan a gas line from Iran via Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and the Med to Greece and Europe. Meanwhile Qatar wants to build a pipeline through Jordan, Syria, Turkey to Europe. So you have Qatar and Turkey who want regime change in Syria so THEIR pipeline goes through, and not Iran's. Pepe Escobar then relates how Bandar Bush foolishly overplayed his hand with Putin while boasting that the Saudis control Middle East terrorism. And of course there's the military industry, as related by Sibel Edmonds.

Note that Iraq is not behaving like a vassal of the United States in spite of being occupied and punished militarily for 10 years. This fact is not lost on Americans who ask what will a "limited airstrike" on Syria bring us?

Sept. 3.
It's being reported that a hacker named €Wagn3r has intercepted emails of US military personnel, wives and friends implicating the US military in the attacks of Aug. 21. One officer compliments another on a job well done, with a link to a story about the gas attack. But this could be disinformation. In one bizarre line, the colonel's wife, who otherwise writes perfect English, says this: "I saw it either and got afraid very much. [sic] But Tony comforted me. He said the kids weren't hurt, it was done for cameras. So you don't worry, my dear."I saw it either? Trouble is, the hacker also writes perfect English.
Could this be a stunt intended to influence opinion outside of the English-speaking world, to get them thinking that even if it was a false flag op, the kindly Americans didn't actually hurt anyone. Or some kind of private joke about using broken English. Perhaps for plausible deniability when writing something that would be damning if it got out? Strange.
There is one bit of corroborating circumstantial evidence - there have been comments on the unusually large number of child victims in the photos, as if they were collected for the purpose. Also, there is a very wide variance between the number dead reported by say, France, in the hundreds, and the USA, over 1400. So maybe the 1100 were Hollywood extras?http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_09_03/Hacked-documents-reveal-Syria-chemical-attack-was-staged-sponsored-by-US-8631/http://outlawpatriot.tumblr.com/post/60141804968/the-following-is-the-message-that-hacker-eurwagn3r-posted

Congressional leaders support Obama's war crime plan. One proposal gives Obama 90 days to run amok, the other gives him 60 days to present a well-founded case. Unfortunately the latter seems to be getting pushed under the rug. Panel may vote tomorrow, full vote will be on Sept. 9th. http://rt.com/news/syria-crisis-live-updates-047/

Excellent overview of the isses here http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/09/03/targeting-iraq-and-syria-2003-and-2013/ Syria has Russia's most advanced Yakhont anti-ship missile.
However, the Yakhont's range is less than 200 miles. US destroyers carry Tomahawk missiles with a range of 1350 miles or more. (China has built the world's first anti-ship ballistic missile, the Dong Feng 21, with a maximum range of almost 2,000 miles.)
Syria's navy is small, its notable vessels include only 2 frigates, 2 submarines and 30 missile boats. On the other hand, all it takes to sink a ship is to put a good-sized hole in it.
Remember the Exocet in the Falklands war. Missiles vs. ships make an asymmetrical match. Ships are a lot easier to hit than missiles and a lot more expensive. Also, the Yakhont is estimated to cost about $1-2 million apiece, while the Raytheon RIM-161, the anti-missile-missile at the heart of the US Navy AEGIS ship defense system, costs $9-$24 million apiece. So far no one is daring to take on the US Navy, but as I see it, US carriers are sitting ducks, and the USA can't indefinitely project power by bluffing and bullying with their floating coffins. Maybe that's one more reason for their rush to crush Syria while they still have the upper hand.

In today's interview on Veritas Radio, Mel Fabregas asked how can the government go ahead when 90% of the people are against a war on Syria? How can we make it a government by, for and of the people? Our republic is supposed to work as a representative democracy, but it clearly doesn't. Time and again the people do not want war. Time and again candidates lie to us. No matter how many letters we write to Congress they don't listen to us.

Here is a proposal. Let's bring our Constitution up to date. Let's pass a law that on important issues, Congress may not defy the opinion polls. Instead, we'll set up a system of direct democracy with voting by Internet, on any issue that enough people want to put to a vote.

If the Internet had existed when our nation was founded, this is what the Founding Fathers would have gone for, direct democracy, not rule by irresponsible "representatives."

The idea is not a new one, it has been around almost as long as the Internet. There is even a wikipedia article on E-democracy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-democracy
It is seen as a way forward of reform by evolution rather than violent revolution. It can also offer a forum to reclaim the discussion space for the authentic voices of the people away from the controlled corporate media.
It would be brilliant if Syria would become the first country to institute Electronic Direct Democracy (EDD). It would certainly shut up Mssrs. Obama and McCain who are defying the will of 90% of their people.

Donald Trump on Twitter "The terrorists in Syria are calling themselves REBELS and getting away with it because our leaders are so completely stupid!" I guess he means Kerry. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

Putin called Kerry a liar for claiming rebels are becoming more moderate. In fact the moderate secular opposition has either given up, had a change of heart or been put out of action. What's left is "Al Qaeda" foreign fanatics funded by Qatar and Saudis. http://rt.com/usa/kerry-syria-rebel-nusra-472/

On calmer reflection I return to my usual position that this is not going to be a regional or world conflagration. Putin was incensed at Bandar's blackmail, but attacking Saudi Arabia could drive it into the arms of NATO, the last thing Russia needs.
Also relativizing the opening statement above about the 4th leg of the stool. An article published today relates how the Saudis tried to break free of the empire's grip in 2001. The 9/11 false flag drove them back into the fold. Remember the patsies or alleged hijacker actors were supposedly Saudis. Why did the controllers script it with Saudis and not Iraqis if they were looking for a war on Iraq? To blackmail the Saudis, evidently. The Saudis then got the job of running Al Qaeda on a broader scale, same job they had in Afghanistan in the '80s. The neo-cons - i.e. Israelis - had put them back in their box. Richer than the average puppet, but still, just the usual bunch of corrupt kleptocrat puppets, sucking their country dry for the empire.http://www.globalresearch.ca/september-11-2001-the-saudi-split-a-motive-for-911/5347816

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
Lies and liars work just in reverse -
First they are believed, then opposed, and finally -- ridiculed.
ROTFL Kerry Obama!
RIP "JK" -- John "Just Kidding" Kerry

Pentagon claims missile strike will cost only in the low tens of millions. One Tomahawk sea-launched cruise missile costs 1 to 1.5 million. If anything happens to the destroyers that launch them, they cost a billion each.

﻿Looking for something on the Saudi oil interest motive in the Syria crisis, I found this piece in in the Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines. Pointing to pipeline politics as the real story behind the Syria crisis, it offers a pretty good timeline, starting in 2009 when Assad rejected Qatar's pipeline proposal.
I passed over the irritating stock-in-trade propaganda line about "a death toll over 100,000 people, the vast majority of whom have been killed by Assad's troops." But I was shocked when I saw the byline. Nafeez Ahmed, our own "9/11 truth" author, has penned this. (Unless it was his editor at the Guardian, a paper that has done some pretty dirty propaganda tricks against Syria.)
To give him credit, he does insert the possibility that the Aug. 21 attack could have been carried out by the rebels.
However, even the hopelessly pro-FSA SOHR doesn't claim that the death count is so one-sided.

Aug. 30th at the UN, remarks by Syrian envoy Jaafari. He notes that Syria informed the UN in December, 2012 that the terrorist side had obtained chemical weapons, that they could use them against armed forces and civilians, and then blame the Syrian government. In Khan al Assal, the day the UN announced it would investigate the CW attack, the terrorists attacked the village and killed over 300 people, because they were all eyewitnesses to those events. Many more great remarks, 11 min. video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VRKQMmLewVQFrom Jaafari's remarks it's possible the CW projectile fired by poorly trained terrorists on Aug. 21 may have been aimed at Syrian army positions, but was not fired correctly and fell short onto a residential neighborhood.

Remember the doctrine of pre-emptive attack in self-defense that Bush invoked for his genocidal war on Iraq? If war gets much closer, Syria would be justified in sinking US destroyers in the Med pre-emptively, before they get their missiles off. Of course, Syria is already justified to retaliate in return for the terrible destruction the US has already wreaked on Syria at the hands of its death squads and proxies. But as Thucydides said, Matters of right are only in question between equals. The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must. Translation: You can't trust strong nations.

Syrian Girl Partisan concludes Syria has only one option if attacked: to retaliate against Israel. She points out that in a war, Israeli populace could go back to Brooklyn or wherever, and zionists don' t want that. Plus Tel Aviv is in easy range of Syrian missiles, while the US Navy may not be. Finally, Israel is pulling the US strings. Why not retaliate against the puppet master, instead of the puppet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk4FFcpquJw

Exactly a year ago today I posted the final version of my popular 13-minute video, showing how the FSA commits massacres and then the MSM blames them on Assad. After watching this you can immediately understand this chemical weapons false flag is right in character for these terrorists and the MMM - the Mass Murdering Media - that peddle their Big Lies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6YAOJ35yMk&feature=youtu.be

By spewing out a ceaseless stream of such lies, the Mass Murdering Media create a composite fictitious picture of Assad the monster, the mass murderer, when in fact they themselves, the military-industrial-media complex, have all the Syrian blood on their own hands.
Once Assad has been demonized, we are supposed to automatically assume that the latest atrocity with chemical weapons is to be blamed on him, without even checking the facts.

Mother Agnes of St. James Monastery concludes that the video evidence of the attack was prefabricated, as it was posted to Reuters at 6 a.m. on Aug. 21, only one to three hours after the attack occurred. She also asks why the "international community" and media completely ignore the massacre of 500 civilians in Latakia by FSA-jihadist terrorists on Aug. 5. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=566081106761009

Haaretz: Jihadists, not Assad, apparently behind reported chemical attack in Syria http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/24/1196627/-Haaretz-Jihadists-not-Assad-apparently-behind-reported-chemical-attack-in-Syria# Meanwhile, The Times of Israel reported, “Israeli intelligence seen as central to US case against Syria”, and confirmed the Guardian’s report that “a large delegation of senior Israeli security officials is currently in Washington holding talks with top administration officials led by US National Security Adviser Susan Rice.” http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2013/09/really-used-chemical-weapons/ "The BBC World News had reported that “Just like Iraq: US arms butchers who use chemical weapons on civilians, and then tries to frame someone else”. In its video report the UN human rights investigator Carla del Ponte confirmed that Syrian militants had used the deadly nerve agent sarin." "Israel, too, has a long record, since its inception, of using biological, chemical and nuclear weapons against Palestinians and against its Arab neighbors."

Israel's motive is to keep the civil war going to neutralize Syria, and likewise in the rest of the Middle East to foment religious and sectarian strife -- divide and conquer. It has worked so far, but the long-term outlook is not good in view of Zbig's notes on increasing public sophistication. In the short term, the reaction against fake Islam in Egypt looks almost like a civil war now, but in the long term, it shows the Arab street is not going to buy the dope the CIA and Wahhabis are pushing. "Israel" too may be past its sell-by date, and may meet the same fate as the Crusader states.

Why is the US the most hated country in the world? "This is why they hate us – meddling, bombing, invading, droning, telling them how to run their countries." http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=50855 And maybe that is why no nation has ever been able to take over the whole world. When a nation gets too powerful, too arrogant, the world pushes back.

White House Chief of Staff Admits: U.S. Has No Military Allies for Syria Strike. Yay! http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/denis-mcdonough-syria-chemical/2013/09/08/id/524403 Trying to recover, the spokesman then put both feet in mouth. "Nobody now debates the intelligence, which makes clear … that in August, the Assad regime used chemical weapons against its own people," he said. "The entire world believes that." Yeah right. You mean the whole world knows you're lying.
Check the comments, too. Folks out there are hopping mad.

Giving up control of its CW would mean Syria losing its only deterrent against Israel, says PartisanGirl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LxHvShIkMw Will Israelis now hand over their nukes to international control?

Assad said something like this on PBS today. "In 2001, we proposed to the United Nations to get rid of every W.M.D. in the Middle East and the United States stood against that proposal... Because Israel has W.M.D. and it has to sign. And Israel occupying our land. So that’s why we talked about Middle East, not Syria, not Israel. It should be comprehensive."
Stick to your guns!

Is the bipolar power bloc system being reborn? The US keeps trying to bully and swagger as if it represents the entire world. But during the Cold War, the US had no say at all about what happened in the Russian sphere of influence. There is evidently no reason that can't happen again.

Sept. 10.

Putin: Syria chem arms handover will work only if US calls off strike. "You can’t really ask Syria, or any other country, to disarm unilaterally while military action against it is being contemplated," President Putin said on Tuesday. http://rt.com/news/putin-syria-chemical-weapons-669/

Have Putin and Assad outsmarted Obama and Kerry? Will the US and its allies agree to renounce the US of force against Syria? Hmmm. One wonders. Even if they do and Syria does give up chemical weapons, it should be possible for Syria to produce them again on fairly short notice, if the US and its allies renege on their end of the bargain. Renouncing force means pulling back their terrorists, too. Will the evil empire admit to and agree to that? This discussion could lead to exposing the US as intent on aggression, justifying Syria's CW deterrent.

Auto-goal as Syria False Flag finally forces Russia to play 9/11 Truth card http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vka7Da6e9LY "The Truthseeker: 9/11 & Operation Gladio." It has seemed to be a taboo for governments to speak of false flags, perhaps because they might want to do one themselves sometime. But the Americans and Brits have been overdoing it so outrageously that they have to be stopped.

The American people really just want to join the rest of the world and be accepted as ordinary people. They are tired of being the world's policeman. They want to get on with their own lives. The same goes for Egyptians, they don't want to be inducted into a campaign for Sharia law. The Russian people don't want to build a Soviet empire. A great many Jews just want to be regular folks and not any kind of chosen people either. That's what it's all about in our global village. At one time the world thought that was what America was about, putting the common man foremost, until these madmen took over.

Sept. 11, 2013

Iran regrets that US ignored its warnings about terrorist rebels getting chemical weapons (CW). No surprises there. Today is of course Sept. 11 and we remember how the US ignored warnings from many countries of an impending strike on 9/11, quite naturally, since they already knew they were going to carry out this false flag themselves. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/09/11/323359/us-must-stop-shock-awe-policy-zarif/

Is this logical?
- The US supplies CW to Al Qaeda.
- AQ death squads use their CW on Syrian army and civilians.
- Syrian government has never used CW.
- Therefore: Syria must give up its CW deterrent.

Skynews is trotting out the old "ghost" story saying the "Shabiha" are behind recent CW attacks in Syria. (Not worth linking to this propaganda fabrication, we've seen thru the shabiha myth last year on this blog.) The FSA/Al Qaeda method is to blame their own massacres on the "Shabiha" (ghosts, in Arabic) who are supposed to be Alawite paramilitary irregulars and terrorists. The mass murdering media then eagerly peddle these fabrications.

Here's how I'd like to see the chemical weapons deal work out.
US, Turkey and the lot ﻿ renounce the use of force against Syria and withdraw support for terrorists.
Syria then has to open up their chemical weapons depot.
"Surprise, we never had any!"
Seriously, this is all very rotten. US has no right to attack Syria, so this is not a bargaining chip. Meanwhile Syria does have the right to maintain deterrents.

It's just a stick-up. Structurally, it's the same as the robber who goes into a bank, points a gun and says, Give me all the money and I won't shoot you.
Private UN negotiations begin on Syria chemical arms SANA reports. Western countries will make impossible and outrageous demands, hopefully Russia and Syria will refuse and not be so foolish as to agree to unilateral disarmament. Diplomacy is war by other means. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=567651476603972&id=298382103530912

Putin and Assad want to open lines of communication, so it's good to have negotiations. But to barter away your deterrent to stop a single strike would be insane. They fabricate false flags on the assembly line, this won't be the last one, they'll be back. They've been working hard on CW false flags because, as Syrian Girl Partisan emphasizes, the CW is the only thing keeping them from coming in and destroying Syria like Libya and Iraq. But the whole demonization of Assad has been accomplished with a series of false flag massacres and myriad other lies. They must renounce the use of force. But how can you trust them even if they do? They created the UN for this and they trample on it, too. Might makes right.

Putin has gained a forum to persuade the barbarians to embrace reason, and he has gained time. At present neither Syria nor Russia have anything that can hit back at the 5 Tomahawk-toting destroyers in the Med. Next week, though, the Moskva missile cruiser arrives, armed with lethal, long-range, supersonic anti-ship missiles, swaying the balance of terror.

Belgian hostage Piccinin, captured by FSA together with Italian war correspondent Quirico, both of them ironically anti-Assad and pro-FSA, overheard a conversation between an FSA general and two other rebelss, indicating they knew the Ghouta attacks were not done by the Assad side, but by the rebel side. The three rebels were also very concerned about US airstrikes. Almost complete blackout of this story in the media outside of Italy. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/504735/20130909/syria-chemical-attack-assad-rebels-blame-hostage.htm

Oct. 29th, 2012.

In an important entry to his Landdestroyer blog on Oct. 24th, Tony Cartalucci underscores a point that is often overlooked. The present crisis in nothing new under the sun -- the Baathist government is a hereditary enemy of Islamist extremism. Hafez Assad's reputation as a brutal dictator is attributable in large part to the bloody suppression of the Moslem Brotherhood in the city of Hama in 1982. Constant Islamist pressure to overthrow the secular state forced Syrian government to adopt authoritarian controls. "Hafez Assad's 'brutality' was aimed at sectarian extremists - fanatics that would later form the foundation of Al Qaeda and serve as a force of violence and destabilization throughout the world."

British and American imperialists have been fostering Islamist extremism for over two centuries, since the founding of the Wahhabi-Saudi partnership, as has been documented by David Livingstone in Terrorism and the Illuminati and by Webster G. Tarpley in 9/11 Synthetic Terror. It is a potent mixture, with Arabia's oil wealth financing reactionary propaganda and ignorance. These dragon's seeds have raised a potentially immense new Mongol horde of ruthless, fanatical jihadis that might overwhelm any progressive or secular state in the region.

But why would the neo-liberal, materialist-atheist USUK foster "religious" extremist Al-Qaeda? For the very same reason the banksters financed the Nazis, the Bolsheviks and the Japanese militarists: the Countergang strategy. Before seeking a war pretext with a powerful rival nation, first infiltrate it with a countergang who hijack it and poison it with an extremist ideology. Then, when your alliance is victorious in your great war with your mad stooges, their moral defeat will be so great that the once proud rival nations become vassals who can never raise their heads from mortal shame again.

As a footnote to the blog entry from Oct. 4th, a US general now blithely entertains the possibility that mortar shells on the Turkish border village, that were supposed to invoke the NATO self-defense warmaking clause, might have been -- a false flag. "We are not sure if these shells are from the Syrian army, from rebels who want to get Turkey involved in the issue or from the PKK [Kurdish Workers’ Party]," the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet quoted commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling. Other reports have noted that the shells were of NATO manufacture.

Transcript of two-minute speech by Syria's representative to the UN Bashar Jafari via Youtube makes clear that Syria is still investigating the source of the shelling, and that FSA mortars are active in the area shelling border posts -- thus the likelihood that the mortars came from the FSA.

"The Syrian authorities are conducting a detailed investigation to find the source of the firing of the shell that fell inside Turkey and the led to casualties.

Until now, the official investigation is NOT over, and the Syrian government, through its Minister of Information, has expressed its condolences to the victims, to the family of the lady who was martyred by the shelling, and to the Turkish people.

However, this was NOT an apology, this as an expression of solidarity with the civilians, of solidarity with this woman and her children, and of sympathy for this family who suffered this tragedy.

This is all based on facts. There are armed groups that are attacking border posts along the Syrian-Turkish border. And this is all happening under the watch of the Turkish border patrol and the Turkish army.

So the story is very clear to the Turkish side, and they very well know what is going on at the border crossings. They also know how these armed groups attack, every now and then, these Syrian border posts on the Syrian-Turkish border."

They certainly know better than anyone else what goes on at the border, as was attested when a Lebanese woman journalist was arrested by the Turkish army on the Syrian side of the border, after she witnessed the Turkish army distributing weapons to insurgent groups. Posted by SyrianGirlPartisan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvujjlIJdek

Oct. 3rd

The other day Morris108 put up an interview on Youtube with an eyewitness saying that the FSA controls all the border crossings with Turkey but one. That reminded me of the suggestion made here on Aug. 8th

"Secure the international borders, not only to keep new fighters out, but to deny those in country the chance to regroup and re-arm. Ask friendly nations to form a coalition and assist with troops for border guard duty. This will also enormously increase the cost for the US should it be tempted to go over to direct combat support."

What really needs to happen is for Russia and any other willing friendly countries to send peacekeepers to secure Syria's borders.

The incident today where NATO wants to make a casus belli over Syria firing a warning mortar blank shell into Turkey underlines this. The border problem is too critical and explosive to let it continue.

Sep. 21st

An Opening to Reconciliation - Is a whiff of peace in the air floating over Damascus?

Yesterday in an interview in Al Ahram, here or here, Bashar al Assad repeated his offer of dialogue and reconciliation with the democracy-demanding Syrian opposition.

At the same time Minister of Reconciliation Ali Haidar stated his hope that "the political process in Syria started to crystallize and the results will be shown in the next few days."

Haidar himself is an opposition politician, leader of the Syrian Socialist Party. He got the new portfolio after he won a parliamentary seat in the May 2012 elections, which the global media blacked out. Reconciliation is the agreed centerpiece of the current government platform, he says. In an http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2012/07/interview-of-syrian-national.html ">interview, Haidar says his solution is for all sides to recognize each other, and to isolate the extremists. The second opposition minister is Qadri Jamil Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs.

Hard to tell if there is much new in these statements? And how do you dialogue with armed Salafi fanatics? You can't talk about "both sides" when there is a third side, a NATO proxy force, attempting to take the country by force.

Can the Opposition Save Syria? An Audacious Proposal

The thinking of at least one opposition activist has evolved in a way that signals a readiness for compromise by some in the opposition. Edward E Dark in Aleppo has piqued my curiosity with his tweets of disillusionment with the FSA: He's a top gun among opposition tweeters, with 6,900 followers and 23,000 tweets.

The turning point for Ed was seeing the horror of war in the massive battle for Aleppo in late July-early August. At heart he is a revo and anti-Assad to the core, yet his perceptions are acutely realistic, and he has taken a load of flak for it from his fellow twitter revos on Twitter.

Before the Syrian Arab Army retook Aleppo, Ed was pretty gung ho about the FSA, with no discernable difference from the opposition line.

Selected Tweets by @edwardedark

July 21 I bought a shotgun & a pistol for home protection, but if Assad's bastards assault Aleppo, I'm getting rifles & fighting them

July 23 In a BBC interview Ed Dark was optimistic that Aleppo was "gradually slipping away from the regime" and accepted the fighting as "part of the price people have to pay for getting their freedom back."

All that was before the big SAA reinforcements arrived and all hell broke loose over Aleppo.

By July 28 he realized,
consensus in Aleppo is FSA is making a mistake by holding neighborhoods. just causes death, destruction & suffering for no discernible gain.
the FSA in Aleppo is in no shape to hold the city. it's outnumbered and outgunned by regime forces. just Self destruction & needless killing
the Syrian crisis can only be solved by a military intervention or a power-sharing compromise, and neither is happening
if regime falls what will take its place? competing armed battalions? chaos? a break up of the country?
honestly, Syrians are stuck between a brutal repressive regime, and an incompetent divided opposition. The rest of the world doesn't care

Aug 7
what use is toppling the regime after you've destroyed and fractured the country?
FSA mostly impoverished youths with anger & revenge on their minds, or ideological Islamists. not nation building material
the FSA has taken the revolution hostage, if it f***s up, which its doing, the revolution fails

Aug 10 there is always room for compromise, because the alternative to it is too grim to think about. we basically have no choice anymore

Sept 10 ppl suppose that because I dare criticize & expose the crimes of armed rebels I must be a regime goon. where were u when I was protesting???
that's because I'm now seeing FSA crimes and the misinformation about them first hand. would u prefer I shut up about them?
yes, the only resolution to the Syrian conflict is through dialogue and diplomacy, everyone and his dog has already said so
FSA rebels are executing prisoners which is a war crime. today they executed 20 soldiers. of course "activists" keep quiet about it #Syria

Sept 12 our incapacity to debate and express different opinions without fighting is what brought Syrians into this mess
I was there 8 p.m tonight in Forqan. they detest FSA which has destroyed their homes, its called a backlash
as an armored convoy passed by the Uni dorms inhabited by the displaced in Aleppo, they started cheering for the regime & against the rebels
You know how much I hate Gaddafi & Bashar? That's how much I hate the extremists now. They are not Islam. They are the enemies of Islam.
They claim to be protectors of Islam when in fact they rear their heads as the worst catastrophe that can ever befall Islam & Muslims.

Sept 17 if we knew when we started our peaceful revolution for change, that it'd be hijacked by Islamist militants we wouldn't have started #Syria
the same s**t head backward fundamentalist Islamists who attacked western embassies across the Arab world r now being armed & sent to #Syria
FSA f*****s blew up the historic 700 year old gates with explosives to "liberate" it
rebels attacked checkpoint just down the road from my house. the f*****s rained mortars all over our neighborhood, that's a WAR CRIME #Syria

Sept. 19 we want our freedoms and rights back, we want to change the regime, but we don't want to replace it with extremists and Al Qaeda
Islamist radicals & clerics are very adept at hijacking revolutions, as u saw ( remember Iran?)
civil guard has been distributing water via trucks to most areas in Aleppo, people filling up via containers
been home without water for 3 days because some rebel commander ass***e thought it would be fun to sabotage the water supply Aleppo #Syria

Sept 20 if you fight Assad with force, he wins, you lose. the country gets destroyed.
we vote Assad out in UN monitored elections, it has happened in other countries before.
we should learn from the other non-violent movements from the last century ...time, will & patience will get us our freedom
both sides stop violence, and negotiate a power sharing transitional period leading to UN monitored elections, that's the plan
FSA in #Syria must renounce the foreign Islamic Jihadists fighting in the country & distance themselves from them in order not to be tainted
Syrians of all political persuasions must renounce violence, put the past behind them & work together to build a new, free democratic #Syria

Thank you Ed.

A free and democratic society is no easy goal. We don't have one in the US, really. True, the police state is not intrusive, the democratic façade still doesn't look that shabby. But greed and corruption make real democracy almost unattainable.

Ed is an idealist. And like so many Syrians, he blames Syrians themselves for the course of events: "our incapacity to debate and express different opinions without fighting is what brought Syrians into this mess." Almost everyone has been fooled into believing the fighting broke out spontaneously. Much more likely it was instigated by NATO special forces provocateurs. Why?

If a real democratic revolution does start to develop anywhere in the world, it is a threat the evil empire cannot afford to leave unpunished. Steps are taken to divert it onto a path acceptable to the Anglo-American money power.

In the pincer between the Syrian Army and the jihadist insurgents, how can the opposition bring democracy to Syria now? They have lost an incalculable amount of goodwill among the population, due to the atrocities and stupidities of the FSA. How are they going to win an election? Aside from a kind of blackmail -- listen to us or Big Brother NATO will intervene -- what bargaining chips do they have to exchange for a share of power? At the moment, power in Syria is primarily military power, anyhow.

There is a great deal that most people in the opposition and the Baath party can agree on. Most Syrians do seem to be OK with the Syrian political philosophy of Arab socialism and nationalism, resistance to Zionism, and secular pluralism. They only want more reforms, and whether one believes him or not, Bashar al Assad has insisted that he wants to give them that. And, Syrians of all stripes really hate Salafis and jihadis.

The impotence of the opposition is a real problem for Syria. It puts all the pressure on the Assad government. This is a terrible burden, fighting on several fronts against NATO, which has a military budget 500 times larger than Syria's. Fighting the terrorists in the cities and on the borders, trying to fight the information war against the world corporate media, struggling with economic sanctions. NATO has devised a cheap means of asymmetrical warfare using Salafi money and proxy fighters. The damage they inflict on Syria is on the order of five to ten times as great as the cost to the aggressors.

Now all this is a real problem for the honest opposition, because if the government cracks under the load, the odds are Syria will be stuck with a jihadist Islamist colonialist regime. That will be far more repugnant and intrusive to the democratic opposition than the Assad dynasty ever was, with Shariah law, no schools or careers for women, an unimaginable great leap backward.

Internal opposition groups are planning a conference in Damascus on Sunday "to save the country", but "the regime" is not invited. Guess they'll have nobody to fight with but each other.

But I'm leading up to an answer here. It seems unorthodox, but in fact it's logical from the fundamental principles of political science: authority rests on power and legitimacy. It's a classic strategy, if a leader can be found to try it.

If the opposition really want power and legitimacy, there is one way to do it..

The opposition must pick up arms, and form a fighting brigade -- like in the Spanish Civil War, where a variety of units joined the fray. By agreement, tacit or express, this opposition force will fight neither against nor alongside the Syrian Army. They won't fight Syrian units of the FSA either, rather they will aim to recruit them. They will create their own power base. The transition which Ed is talking about can take this physical form, of a militia.

The chosen target for the wrath of the weapons of the armed democratic opposition will be the foreign mercenaries and Jihadists (if perhaps inevitably including some Syrians slow enough to still be carrying Al Qaeda banners.) This patriotic stance will help repair the image of the opposition as bunglers who only brought destruction on Syria.

As things stand now, neither side can win militarily in Syria, only more and more of the country is destroyed. This balance of terror means that a new force can swing the outcome in disproportion to its own size. By this means the anti-jihadist opposition fighters can profile as heroes saving Syria (and Ed's revolution), gaining enormous legitimacy, while other opposition groups who stand by merely harping at fate, fade into insignificance.

If the policy is successful, more Syrians will join the bandwagon. The result will be a military victory over the proxies of the evil empire and a political victory for Syrian democracy, where two strong parties that can respect each other's hard-won victory can compete at the polls. The revo military arm can be a guarantee of democracy against a slide back to a Baathist police state.

So no, that's not a whiff of peace in the air. It's gunpowder, if any opposition party prefers winning over whining. The stage is set for patriotic heroes to rise to the hour and defeat the bloody fascist empire.

It's really very simple. If you want to share the power, you need to share the effort, too.

Edward Dark himself recently changed his Twitter icon from a clenched fist to a logo reading, Save Syria. That's exactly what the opposition needs to do to save their revolution.

Sep. 20th

Be Skeptical of a Spectacle: Illusions and Delusions of the Attack Video

I think it would be better for Muslims to ignore stupid provocations. Now France is reacting by expressly publishing nasty caricatures of the Prophet. They are enjoying the protests with Schadenfreude.

If people would ignore the film, the Zionists would have nothing to show for their dirty $5 million. As it is, they are getting a huge bang for the bunk. Their media can go all out in caricaturing Muslims as excitable terrorists. They timed the killing of the US ambassador by CIA death squads to make it look like he was killed in reaction to this stupid film.

What does the Koran say about this question? I believe that to ignore such provocations is correct in Islam. There is a hadith where a Beduin swore at the Prophet and called him names. Mohamed in return blessed the man and offered him food. The heckler broke down and said, now I admit you are the quality of man they say you are.

Of course the parallel is not perfect, Zionist provocateurs are perverse souls, distant strangers from grace and repentance. But why give them the sadistic pleasure of manipulating you into a crushing psychological warfare defeat? A good old American expression says it very well: Don't get mad - get even.

Progressive Press specializes in studies of false flag operations and other sophisticated forms of provocation. But this stupid flick was the most common and primitive trick of all -- the playground bully who teases the smaller child to get him to over-react, so he has an excuse to beat him.

Some have rushed to the defense of the Muslim world saying, the protests are not really about the film, they are about the genocidal wars of the evil empire against Muslims. That may well be true. But the way the protests are presented, by making Muslims out to be ignorant savages, only helps set up the Muslim world to be targeted for yet more brutal and bloody aggression. Not a smart way of striking back.

There is generally someone in the background inciting a mob, though. It could be a respected figure, an imam or a sheikh. This is where the plot thickens again. The Muslim world is riddled with these witting and unwitting tools of imperialism. This is why the violence has occurred in Muslim states now being targeted by the evil empire, such as Pakistan and the "Arab Spring" states of North Africa, but not in the empire's vassal regimes in the Arabian peninsula.

"When popular upheavals challenged these US-backed dictatorships, and a social as well as political revolution appeared likely to succeed, Washington responded with a three-track policy: publicly criticizing the human rights violations and advocating democratic reforms; privately signaling continued support to the ruler; and thirdly, seeking an elite alternative which could substitute for the incumbent and preserve the state apparatus, the economic system and support US strategic imperial interests.

"In Latin America in the 1980's, Washington promoted negotiated electoral transitions which replaced dictators with pliable neoliberal electoral politicians, who pledged to ... defend the privileged foreign and domestic elites and back US policies." Just the same sort of "democracy" Americans get at home.

Excellent insights!

Tet Petras has one blind spot. He ignores the massive body of knowledge about US State and Offense Department funding of Color and Other revolutions, democracy NGO's, and protest movements. Perhaps he is a revolutionary romantic. Or he fears to offend his left-wing readership with conspiracy thinking, which is relegated to the political "right" in the artificial categories maintained by the powers that be.

Revolutionary romantics like to think of the empire as run by intellectual dinosaurs. It is an unacceptable affront to their self-esteem to conceive that the think tankers of the empire, players of the game from every angle on the board, may be more sophisticated than their fist-clenching opponents. Like Smithers in the Simpsons series, the wonks are clever, amoral, highly-paid servants, the brains that money can buy.

My favorite quote on the subject is the observation by Tarpley in 9/11 Synthetic Terror:

"Secret intelligence agencies are fatalist or realist in that they regard all large-scale sociological and political changes as inevitable. As soon as they identify a budding phenomenon which they have not yet penetrated, their only thought is how to infiltrate their agents and assets into it, so they can steer or influence it as it ripens. Whenever the leaders of intelligence agencies see a train leaving the station, their only thought is to climb on board, quite irrespective of the destination, as Gen. Paul Albert Scherer, the former head of West Germany’s Military Counter-Intelligence (Militärischer Abschirmdienst) and one of the greatest experts in this field, assured me some years back. This applies to terrorist groups most emphatically. Here the attention of the secret intelligence agencies is so strongly focused that their task is most often that of founding, and much more seldom that of infiltrating and taking over some group which already exists."

Now this is quite logical. If they did not do this, they would not be doing their job. Take revolution. 99% of the people are cheated and downtrodden. Sooner or later they are going to revolt. Look at the history of China. It is pocked with literally thousands of peasant rebellions. So it is a known fact that revolutions happen. Should the caretakers of society, for those who think they own it, just wait for a spontaneous revolution, and then improvise countermeasures? Or, faced with such a predictable phenomenon, should they tunnel away like moles to be the ones who pop to the surface when it's time for the revolution to come out and be defeated once again? They are not being paid $35 billion a year to just let events take their natural course, are they.

Sep. 15th

Prof. Tarpley interprets the video attack on Prophet Mohammed and the ensuing unrest and slaying of US Embassy personnel as planned provocation and response, to duplicate the effects of the Iran hostage crisis that toppled President Carter, remembered as the October Surprise. Netanyahu and Romney are "joined at the hip since they worked together at Boston Consulting Group." It's the revenge of the neo-cons for Obama's own Color Revolution of 2008. That with a little help from the manufacturers of voting machines could turn the trick. Read the article.on PressTV. Hear the whole story on World Crisis Radio.

Once again, 9 times out of 10, revolt and revolution are artificially instigated movements serving imperialism.

Embassy personnel believe the actual killing was carefully planned. Stephens was not in the embassy but in a secret safe house, which was compromised. Heavily armed death squads attacked it with RPG's, according to the Independent . "Inside story of US envoy's assassination: America 'was warned of embassy attack but did nothing'."

Update, Sep. 16th.

SyrianGirlPartisan presenting on Youtube her hypothesis that the aim of the video was to create sectarian strife between Muslims and Christians, especially in Egypt, as the alleged producer of the clip is a Copt. The film failed badly in this specific aim, although it might advance the imperialist agenda in other ways. Killing of ambassador probably not intended. She agrees it won't help Obama. Perhaps neo-cons in the CIA turned the plot to their own ends?

Rodger Davies, the leading State Department apologist in the face of rising congressional sentiment against the Greek regime, was an acutely insensitive choice as the new ambassador to Cyprus. He arrived to prepare the ground about a month before the enforced partition. Not long after that he was dead, killed in a remarkable fashion as the embassy came under a sudden and violent siege. A sniper with a deadly aim, and a very accurate picture of the ground plan of the building, fired a single bullet. This travelled through the open doors of several rooms and the full length of a connecting corridor, before finding its target sitting at his desk directing the defence of the embassy. As his Cypriot secretary Antoinette Varnava bent over the stricken diplomat, her head was expertly lopped off by a repeat shot. Marksmen of that expertise were to be found by the score in the ranks of the stay-behind armies.
The death of Rodger Davies indicated a distinct swing of the pendulum. Despite pleadings from officials, Cypriot police made no attempt to quell the riot, or aid the besieged diplomats, thus allowing the gunmen free range. The shot that killed Davies came from a high velocity rifle fitted with uncommonly powerful sights, standard NATO kit. It was precisely the weaponry issued to Gladio Sheepskin commandos recently ordered to the island to assassinate Makarios. Davies’s death was part revenge by bitter men who believed themselves thrown to the wolves by the Americans, and part the beginning of a process which would lead to the appearance of the November 17 death squad, together with its many clones, as guns for hire on the streets of Athens for decades to come.

The assassination attempt on Archbishop Makarios failed. Interestingly, Syrian Girl also mentions a plot against the pope in her new clip.

Sep. 14th

The book Subverting Syria from Progressive Press appears in print next week, priced at $10. The final edition of the e-book is now available for #3.99 here

Progressive Press author Richard Cottrell has just written a great new blog LIHOP in Libya -- Useful Idiots and Media Bloodlust as US Consul Sacrificed to Stoke Islamophobia. It's about the killing of the US ambassador in Libya, and the wave of protests shaking the Middle East. His thesis is that this uproar is quasi-planned by the CIA in order to stoke Islamophobia in the West. The technique used is "let it happen," including security stripping. Cottrell is the author of Gladio: NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe, wherein he shows how these tactics were used to foster the Strategy of Tension and prop up right-wing regimes in Europe, from 1945 or even earlier, up to the present.

The fate of ambassador Stephen is oddly reminiscent of the killing of CIA station boss Richard Welch in Athens in 1975, as recounted in Gladio. I understand Stephens was a point man for the US invasion of Libya, sort of poetic justice if he was hoist by his own petard, but of course, such people are still expendable and for once, I agree with LIHOP.

Stoking Arab rage not only reinforces stereotypes about Muslims, but it also gives psychological cover for the mad jihad against Syria. It has been observed that the rage is breaking out mostly in the countries targeted in the so-called Arab Spring -- rather than in the regimes of the usual suspects like KSA / Saudia Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain.

How gratifying that Fisk, as the first Western reporter in Daraya after the tragedy, agreed that the evidence points to a massacre by the FSA. Does this invalidate the video's thesis that the mainstream media are Big Lying cogs in the military-industrial complex?

Fisk is an illustrious journalist who has reported on the Middle East for 20 years. It is doubtless presumptuous for an unknown like me to find fault with a writer of his stature. But look at what I posted and what he posted on Aug. 27, the day the MSM hysteria reached a fever pitch blaming the "Assad regime" for the massacre.

Progressive Press: "MSM Close Ranks around Daraya False Flag Coverup"

Robert Fisk: "The Syrian army would like to appear squeaky clean. It isn't... The Syrian military... work with the shabiha, who are a murderous, largely Alawite rabble who have slaughtered hundreds of Sunni civilians."

So how did I get it right two days before Fisk, when I was on the other side of the world and he was in Damascus?

I'm a conspiracy realist, well read in the wiles of deception. Fisk is not allowed to go there. Even if he works for the "Independent" 40 years, they won't give him that long a leash.

Fisk's "shabiha" stance mimics the propaganda churned out by the war machine. He is not allowed to believe in false flags, so he defaults to the distorted MSM version of reality. Here's my long-distance view on the mysterious shabbies:

The word "shabiha" means ghosts, and that is what they are - the ghosts of killed or vanished FSA fighters. These "shabiha" are mythical beings, whose sole role is to propagate the myth of Assad murdering his own people, by shifting the blame for murders of civilians by "thugs" not in uniform. That's why they vanish and turn into anti-government snipers at the approach of the Syrian army or even a journalist. Fisk saw them in his mind's eye on the 27th, but not on the 29th. In the harsh light of day, he saw only anti-government snipers -- indeed he had to dodge their fire.

Sometimes deduction beats induction. You can come to conclusions instantly, and without getting shot at.

Fisk comes so close without getting there. On Aug. 26, he wrote a piece headlined "The bloody truth about Syria's uncivil war. Those trying to topple Assad have surprised the army with their firepower and brutal tactics." In it he notes, "Despite the narrative now peddled in the West, armed men were present on the streets of Syrian cities and villages since the very early days of the Syrian awakening 18 months ago." But he doesn't see the conspiracy, or isn't allowed to.

Fisk let show his stubborn immunity to conspiracy analysis in his interview with the Syrian foreign minister Muallem, posted on Aug. 28, 'We believe that the USA is the major player against Syria and the rest are its instruments.'

"When Muallem referred to the Brookings Institution, I groaned, " says Fisk. The Brookings memo is one of the major smoking guns showing how the entire atrocity against Syria was planned by the Evil Empire. He knows about it and can only groan.

Fisk dismisses 9/11 Truth with a groan, too. In "Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11" he questions the truthers, whom he calls "ravers." He says, "I am the Middle East correspondent of The Independent, not the conspiracy correspondent; I have quite enough real plots on my hands in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Iran, the Gulf, etc, to worry about imaginary ones in Manhattan." So who is the conspiracy correspondent? There is none for the Homeland because there are no conspiracies there. Then, with his famous even-handedness, he goes on to list some of the arguments for controlled demolition. Finally, his wooden conclusion: "Let me repeat. I am not a conspiracy theorist." Much like the mantra of a candidate for office, perhaps the office of Middle East Correspondent?

Fisk seems to be signalling, "Please, this is as far as I can go."

9/11 is the litmus test between free thinkers and those embedded in the MSM world view. The Independent is not independent, it too is corporate controlled mainstream media.

Fisk (or his editor) also refers to the Syrian government as "the regime," a pejorative term that gave even the BBC a soul-searching moment. He dignifies NATO terrorists with the label, "rebel opponents of the regime," when they are not rebels, but mercenaries. He just can't see or say this is a US conspiracy, even after the Syrian FM tells him.

I had a little fun with Shabiha ghost stories in an interchange with a certain Huff Post Super User Nazir Qaib (resident troll) here:

Troll: Typically the regime sends in Shabiha before the official Army arrives.

Progressive Press: The word Shabiha means ghosts. They are the ghosts of the FSA who are killed by the Army after it arrives. The surviving FSA (or their civilian accomplices) then take photos of the dead the FSA have killed plus their own dead, and advertise them as civilian victims of the army. This is why they are always first with the photo evidence. So the FSA are a kind of Fake Shabiha Army or Fake Supernatural Army. The real Shabiha were a fairly small gang of smugglers who were disbanded over 20 years ago. Their continued existence is, like that of ghosts, a myth. A very convenient one for media and destabilization operations by the FSA/USA.

Troll: The Shabiha are rarely killed [one of the plusses of being a ghost]. Assad is paying them. Assad and his family have been taking their bribes for 20 years...Your entire argument holds no water...

Progressive Press: You're so right. Ghosts and ghost arguments don't hold water well. That's why it's so easy to take the piss out of them. That's why they vanish and turn into anti-government snipers at the approach of a camera or journalist not in bed with the FSA.

Sep. 4.

The first ever video clip from Progressive Press, "How the FSA Massacred Citizens of Daraya," was posted on Youtube yesterday, and has received quite a few views and positive comments, for which we are exceedingly grateful, as the 12-minute production was a big effort. The final version will be posted in a few more days.

Aug. 27. “MSM Close Ranks around Daraya False Flag Coverup” posted here.
Aug. 28. Based on the overwhelming majority of news stories blaming “the regime,” a NATO teleconference decides in principle to strike Syria. Non sequitur, casus belli. Aug. 29. First Western journalist in Daraya is Robert Fisk of the Independent. He dodges FSA snipers to speak to resident eyewitnesses, who tell that the killings were carried out by armed gangs BEFORE the Army arrived.

Conclusion: we need to see through mainstream lies on their face in real time. It's too late if we wait for someone to debunk them.

Fisk's Aug. 29 article is entitled "Inside Daraya - how a failed prisoner swap turned into a massacre." He believes there were negotiations between the Army and the FSA about an exchange of hostages. When that failed, the Army moved in.

I was skeptical about Fisk's hostage exchange story, because an earlier hostage-taking in Khalidiya resulted only in the FSA dynamiting the building where the victims were held.

Yet Fisk's theory has an interesting aspect. The army has been criticized a lot (including by me) for shelling FSA-held neighborhoods to soften up sniper positions before going in. It was reported that the SAA are making efforts to approach these areas more cautiously.
So now they did that, and what happens? The people are tormented for four days -- as documented in our videoclip excerpts from Adunya -- and then they suffer the biggest massacre yet at the hands of the FSA !

Loyalist Syrians are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Maybe that's because their antagonist is the Great Satan?

Aug. 27

MSM Close Ranks around Daraya False Flag Coverup

Wall to wall, the mass media are toeing the official warmonger line on Daraya, citing "opposition activist" reports blaming "Assad's troops" -- usually with the hypocritical disclaimer that it's "as yet unconfirmed." Yet those reports were thoroughly debunked by Syrian TV. Let me ask you which account is more coherent:

- The "Activist" (CIActivist!) version. A couple hundred dead bodies are found, nobody really knows who shot them but we ASSUME it was ASSAD. That's the whole short story, folks.

- Syrian survivors version from Addounia TV.
For three or four days, armed gangs roamed the streets, trying to get into houses and sniping at people on the streets. Multiple witnesses agree they were not able to leave their homes. Some of them were in shelters.
Then, on the 25th, the gangs suddenly start to force people out of their houses, saying the Army is coming and is going to kill you. The gangs take groups of people to shelters. There one witness tells how some of the civilians were rounded up and shot.
The Army then arrives and a battle ensues in which the terrorists are driven off.

This more complete narrative agrees with all the witness statements and evidence. Even the quoted statements of the terrorists agree with it. The Army arrived when they said it would.

So here is a logical explanation for the sequence of events.

The insurgency has been suffering military and diplomatic defeats since the ill-fated attack on Aleppo. The little terrorists on the ground need help from the big terrorists in Washington. That means Hitlery Clinton and Barack Obomber need a pretext for a "no-fly zone" (euphemism for carpet bombing an independent nation back to the Ice Age.)

Remember the Houla massacre, blamed on "Assad forces." We soon proved it was to a false flag operation by the terrorist FSA. These facts were ignored, and sanctions were imposed on Syria. They want to repeat this now.
Accordingly, the FSA has been shooting civilians on the streets of Daraya for days, building up a death toll for the time the Army must come in to take the blame. As the Army arrives, they stampede some civilians to add to the death toll, and to use as human shields. As the battle rages, they burn many of the bodies of their dead to hide their foreign identities. As noted by the LandDestroyer blog, the FSA is the successor to the LIFG, the Al-CIAda run Libyan death squads, who destroyed many cities in Libya -- so the FSA should certainly be the prime suspects.

The actions of the CIA-trained FSA insurgents certainly appear to be choreographed by CIA psychological warfare controllers.

In other words, the whole operation was tailor-made for the MEDIA -- the warmongerers of yellow journalism.

The time has come to rename the MSM, or Mainstream Media, as the MMM -- the Mass Murdering Media.

All hits on the first page of a Yahoo search on Daraya today propound the "opposition activist" version. Yesterday the #5 google hit on Daraya was infowars.com, with an excerpt of the Addounia TV report blaming terrorists for the massacre. Now it dropped to #9. All other results are "activist reports." A coherent narrative is put out by Syria, and it's buried.

I could find no major online media outlet that allows reader comments on the Daraya story. My comments to Huffington Post never showed up, but I'll try again. When I tried to post a comment to the "activist" youtube video, it said I have been blocked by the owner.

On Russia Today, UK analyst Neil Clark also reminded us that such massacres seem always to occur just before a UN Security Council meeting.

Another Syrian TV report notes that the dead bodies in the mosque shown by the "activist" video are all males of fighting age. Reason: the FSA burned their foreign dead and dragged their Syrian dead into the mosque for the false flag photo op. The FSA narrator claims the bodies have "throats slit by shabiha" but no slit throats are visible. The Syrian TV commentator also asks, if the FSA allegedly control great much of the country, then when the SAA enters a town held by the FSA, why the dead are supposedly all civilians and no FSA fighters?

The commentator goes on to cite Al-Arabiya TV, an Arabic-language globalist traitors channel, which showed these words on the screen: "The Free Army takes cover in a populated neighborhood... its members take cover among residents while awaiting what they call 'Zero Hour.'" (This maneuver corroborates the testimony above about the FSA shouting "the Army is coming.") The eommentator continues, "hiding among civilians in military terminology is taking them as human shields. [A war crime under the Geneva conventions.] This is the idea the Al-Arabiya program concludes with, that the so-called Free Army is taking cover behind civilians and not protecting them [lies will out]. He who takes a civilian as a human shield knows that the other party cares for that civilian and cares for his safety." Yet the MMM channels ignore all these facts and blame all killings on the SAA, who protect the civilians and do not hide behind them.

Aug. 26

An article "Why Syria Will not Fall," translated from Arabic to English at an Indian website, reveals that the Syrian authorities are already doing one thing I had thought of before I could put it in writing: "especially in the rural areas where the people have become sick and tired, the Syrian state has put in place discreet communication means allowing the population to inform the army about the presence of terrorists, which would explain how and why during these last few weeks, the special units and the air force were able to successfully carry out well designed strikes against the bases of the armed gangs."

Daraya Massacre by FSA

Syria is learning. The latest of a series of large false-flag massacres was cut short by the FSA. About 200 civilians were killed in the town of Daraya by FSA terrorists the other day. I would assume this was a false flag planned in coordination with psy-war controllers in the US Dep't of Offense and MSM. However, the Syrian Army arrived in time to rescue most of the people who had been driven from their homes, and Syrian TV broadcast moving interviews with survivors and soldiers. Worth watching here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPzKIkNepyo, click on CC for English captions. The terrorists drove people from homes into a "shelter" shouting get out, the army is coming. After many civilians were shot in the streets and inside the shelter, the Syrian army appeared and rescued most of them, also driving off and killing many of the terrorists.

Top media hits on Daraya - Comments were disabled on the Guardian, NY Daily News and VOA narratives of the latest big war propaganda lie. I tried posting to Huffingpost, no dice. Infowars is already up among the first 5 google hits with the real story. I tried posting this message below on the youtube video of the massacre uploaded by "activists" but I "have been blocked by the owner of this video". Somebody obviously wants this lie to stick.

Daraya is another in the series of big false flag massacres carried out by US trained mercenaries and blamed on the Syrian Army by the media, which are a key part of the psychological warfare effort. It's timed to push through a "no-fly zone," the code word NATO liars use for bombing an independent nation back to the stone age. The massacre is a lot like Houla last year where a jihadi terror unit slit the throats of families who supported Assad, then claimed they were killed by Syrian Army shelling. Based on these lies the USUK rushed to impose sanctions on Syria. In Daraya, terrorists gangs stormed the town, forcing people from homes, shouting the army is coming, corralled them into a shelter and then started shooting people. The Army arrived in time to save most of the people and drive off the terrorists, killing many of them. See the real time interviews with survivors and soldiers here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPzKIkNepyo (click on CC for captions) or the report by Alex Jones http://www.infowars.com/daraya-residents-dispute-claim-massacre-carried-....

Robert Fisk has been starting to doubt the official line a little in the pieces he's writing from Damascus for the Independent. I submitted two comments to his latest article, "The bloody truth about Syria's uncivil war - Those trying to topple Assad have surprised the army with their firepower and brutal tactics."

1. I hope this comment somehow reaches the Syrian Arab Army leadership. Fisk's reports often give indications that the Syrian army needs a well-thought-out counter-insurgency doctrine on how to deal with terrorists, who take over urban districts and use civilians as human shields. That is a war crime, and the FSA are a criminal gang. Nonetheless, tanks and artillery are not really suitable for taking out snipers. Why not empower more civilians and army veterans to defend their own neighborhoods? For more details see the blog "The Dirty War on Syria".

2. Dear Mr Fisk,
I'd like to ask if in repeating that "the revolt began after secret police officers tortured to death a 13-year-old boy," have you checked into this or are you trusting the media -- the corrupt warmongering mainstream media? There are 2 sides to every story and every time I dig out the Syrian side, I find that the tale put out everywhere by the CIA-trained FSA is a Big Lie.
In the case of Hamza al Khateeb, he was 17, not 13, and he was not arrested and tortured for writing graffiti. He joined in an armed mob that was firing at a police station, and was killed by three bullets -- whether fired by the police or perhaps even by provocateurs, commandos tasked with stoking violence. The cause of death -- gunshot wounds, and not torture -- was established by the coroner before it was known who Hamza was. His body was taken from the scene of the shootings directly to the hospital.
The Syrian government narrative "True Story of Hamza al-Khateeb's Death Belies Media Fabrications" can be found online as well as a youtube video "Medical Examiner Interview about Hamza Al-Khateeb."
I think you too, the more you dig into the Syria story, the more you will find it is a dirty war based on a Big Lie against a small, proud, nation that dares to be INDEPENDENT.

(Note - On Aug. 12, Robert Fisk wrote that it was an 11-year old boy. Today it was a 13-year old. Give him another month and he might make it to 17, and tell the other side of the story, too?)

Aug 24

Give Us Each Day Our Fill of Lies

A top story on Yahoo yesterday blared the headline, "Assad's War on Syria's Children." The casual viewer will assume that Assad is massacring 1000's of kids. Read it and come to find out all they have is two kids who exhibit violent behavior, after their rebel father and uncle fought back against the army instead of evacuating. Moral: terrorists make terrible parents.

Typical, twisted, Goebbelsian MSM war propaganda, from the aptly named "Daily Beast."

For that false flag the US is planning in order to get their war on Syria, I bet you their proxy insurgents the FSA Fanatic Saudi Assassins wipe out a school full of kids with chemical weapons and blame it on Assad. No war propaganda more potent than the killing of babies.

They have already recycled the phony Kuwait / Iraq incubator babies deaths tale from 1990 against Syria now. The FSA massacre at Houla was blamed on the Syrian government and used to justify sanctions against Syria -- even after the truth had come out that it was done by US-sponsored death squads and not the Syrian Army.

They make up their own truth - and it's the Big Lie every time.

Aug. 22

Turnabout is Fair Play - Syria should set up Local Militias, and put a Bounty on Terrorist Heads too

By now I've seen innumerable reports and videos of the gratitude of Syrians for the protection of their Army against the depredations of FSA terrorist gangs. The latest one appeared in The Telegraph, Aug. 21, Robert Fisk reporting:

At least a dozen civilians emerged from their homes, retirees in their 70s, shopkeepers and local businessmen with their families and, unaware that a foreign journalist was watching, put their arms round Syrian troops.

I also just came across a report from June in Global Research on how the largesse of the oil emirates Qatar and KSA trickles down to the smallest pawns in the game

The young people no longer want to work in the field. You can earn every day 5000, 8000, 1000 pounds, if they kill policemen. A man from Qusseir (Qusair), who has recently reported himself to the authorities, has confessed, that he has 150 000 Syrian pounds for committing the kidnapping and murder of six soldiers.
Syrian soldiers have said that they have received about 180 000 Syrian pounds [about $3000 US], to desert (from the Army), what is a fortune here in Syria.

Fisk also quotes an Army general on the terrorists: They snipe at us and then they run and hide and in the sewers. Foreigners, Turks, Chechens, Afghans, Libyans, Sudanese." And Syrians, I said. "Yes, Syrians too, but smugglers and criminals," he said.

Juxtaposing these three facts, a tactic occurred to me that could help Syria win the counter-insurgency. Rather than making civilians wait for the army to save them, why not recruit trustworthy veterans or reservists for a neighborhood militia in civilian dress? Some neighborhoods and clans have already done this on their own, Christians in particular, setting up checkpoints with armed guards to protect themselves. Most Syrian men serve two years in the army, so they know how to fire a gun.

As an incentive, declare a bounty for the killing or capture of foreign terrorists. Of course, such a program needs to be well-planned to avoid abuses. Candidates for neighborhood counter-insurgency commando service would need to be vetted and trained to avoid chaos and killings of ordinary civilians, or infiltration by FSA sympathizers. But we already have those problems with the FSA. So with judicious application, such a program could be a game-changer.

Bounties should either be higher, or paid exclusively for, foreign combatants. For their protection, foreign journalists should wear Press jackets, carry a visa, and make themselves known to authorities in the areas where they are working. Reservists might need special training in stalking snipers, and their identities might need to be kept secret, to avoid being singled out by terrorists.

Chairman Mao said, "The guerrilla must swim among the people as the fish swims." The same holds true for counter-insurgents. Well-targeted, hand-in-glove methods will also greatly reduce the physical and moral damage from the use of heavy weapons, which are at any rate poorly suited to hit-and-run guerrilla tactics.

It is understandable if the Syrian authorities may experience anxiety about loss of direct control over each weapon and soldier under such a policy, but adequate control can be maintained. The fact remains that the heroic Syrian Arab Army was built for a conventional war with Israel. Today's war waged by the US and proxies is an insidious, unconventional model, requiring innovation and cunning to combat it.

Update Aug. 24. When i see a single FSA sniper terrorizing a whole neighborhood, or one terrorist blowing up a tank with an RPG, i really have to ask if the SAA are using the best mix of weapons. True, they keep killing terrorists, but can they afford the cost? NATO can send more insurgents and wear Syria down in a war of attrition.

Nowadays is the age of open source -- you can't concentrate all tasks and do everything yourself -- got to harness the power of the people. The Evil Empire got to be as big as it is because it learned this long ago. Syria is under attack by a CIA People Power Coup, among other things. The Syrian people are so thankful to their army, I'm sure they would be glad to help.

A comment on Twitter today by @FadiSalem, quoting an Aleppo activist about the FSA: "They have no regards what so ever for civilian life. They hide among them, leave them when shelling starts."

Sell also Update Aug. 26.

Aug. 20

REALITY AND DEMONOLOGY IN THE WAR ON SYRIA

It seems the real situation in Syria is never as bad as the hysteria pushed by the Western media. Of course, no news is always bad news for the media, but with Syria, there is an added motive -- catastrophic reports raise the pressure for intervention.

That's why I liked the concluding words of this unusually low-key, level-headed "Despatch from Damascus" by a German journalist, posted on Aug. 4th:

Damascus itself was placid, and normal life went on.... I walked through the city, speaking to shop owners, taxi drivers, people on the streets, policemen, women in headscarves and in Western outfits. The answer was always the same – the international media completely distort what is happening. They singled out the Qatar-based TV station Al-Jazeera for particular criticism....
A final surprise came at the Lebanese side of the border. There I saw the first time the black-white-green rebel flag waving in the wind. Immediately beyond the Lebanese border station were a dozen Western TV teams, waiting for the ‘refugees’. Some of them were paying interviewees in dollars for short interviews; and the wilder the story, the better they seemed to like it. It seems that reality doesn’t mean all that much when the Western media talk about Syria.

From this account we not only learn of the exaggeration of violence, but also that the people overwhelmingly support the government.

In a recent interview, Alex Jones agreed with guest Syrian Girl Partisan that short of a chemical weapons false flag attack, the empire has few options open to intervene. The latest attempt to drum up such a pretext was aimed as much at Iran as Syria. The claim by Dep't of Offense Secretary Panetta that Iran is training militias in Syria was a masterpiece of duplicity

- the US itself has already invaded both Iran and Syria with commandos, death squads and proxies,
- the allegation of a military intervention by Iran in Syria could be a pretext for an overt attack on either country.
- claims of a loyalist militia are constantly used to shift blame for killings by US proxy death squads onto the Syrian government, and to cover up the fact that Syrian civilians themselves are rejecting and even opposing the US-backed militants

Perhaps the US will be content just do as much damage to Syria as it can using the jihadist cannon fodder available, and let the conflict splutter on. They have been trying to crack Syria for 65 years now. Syria's electoral reform will make it easier to buy influence in the country. Already in 2014, they can try to create a scandal over the question whether the constitution allows Assad to run for president again or not. While one school of thought was that Syria needed to be taken out before tackling Iran, tying up Syria with low-intensity warfare may be enough.

Facts vs. Acts -- Analyzing Activist Assumptions

Let us look at some of the reasons given by opposition activists for supporting armed violence against the Syrian state.
- 42 years of rule by the Assad family
- Security forces allegedly firing on unarmed demonstrators
- Torture
- Shelling in civilian areas

Like Father Like Son?

When you ask Syria opposition activists, "Why not give the new reforms a chance?" they often answer, "Too little, too late. We suffered 42 years under the Assad dictatorship." When you then ask why they are not supporting the protests against the Al Khalifa family of Bahrain, who have ruled there for over 200 years, you get no answer.

The opposition likes to conflate Hafez Assad the strongman with his son. Bashar Assad was chosen to be president by the Baath party, and does not appear to wield absolute, personal power. Yet the opposition blames him for everything from the houseflies to the weather.

My impression is that Bashar is on the soft side for a leader, rather than the strongman dictator type. In interviews, he conscientiously rejects any notion of his own personal power, speaking always of the constitution, the party, the office.
When Bashar was first elected, he announced plans for reforms. Unfortunately, they were too long in coming, true enough. Perhaps he couldn't push them through over the old guard in the Baath party.

Another point of softness was B. Assad's attempt to win Western favor by making concessions. A few years back, he let in the IMF austerity shamans -- an entering wedge for destabilization. This spring, he tried to respect the UN ceasefire, which only let terrorists get more deeply entrenched.
If the US and the activists they support wanted reform, they could have pushed for reform and got it. Instead, the protests immediately turned to violence. Nevertheless, as soon as the protests started in Spring 2011, the Baathists saw the writing on the wall and started the political reform process.

[Update Aug. 26]

Under this head we may also include the complaints about corruption, which doubtless exists. Corruption is an endemic world-wide problem, difficult to eradicate. Do the SNC or FSA have a solution? On the contrary. Most likely it will be far more devastating under a gaggle of imperialists puppets.

The SNC have promised a pie-in-the-sky idyll of a rosy-hued economic paradise, what Webster Tarpley calls "singing tomorrows," watered by the generous spigot of "international donors." (See "SNC Presents its Vision for the Reconstruction of the Syrian Economy" at Stephen Lendman's blog). Their "vision" scrupulously avoids any mention of the P-word privatization. Yet this has always been the first, fastest and most furious thing post-color-revolution puppet governments have done. On this score I am an eyewitness for once, having lived in Czecho-Slovakia and Albania from 1990 to 2001, playing a bit part in the privatization process. The vaunted hopes of prosperity it would bring were dashed utterly. In most post-socialist countries, privatization greatly aggravated poverty and corruption.

The R-word of Reconstruction is far worse. It means, Destroy the country in order to bring in corrupt Allied corporations to rebuild it -- or more likely run it into a hell-hole like Somalia, Libya or Afghanistan. The ploy should be clear to any reader of the best-seller, Economic Hit Man, with its lesson that America's foreign policy is foreign plunder. It's no fount of donations, to pay public sector employees, of all things, as in the SNC fairyland fantasy, which targets the juveniles and "revtards" (retarded revolutionaries) who make up the FSA supporter base worldwide. In Libya, as we documented in Subverting Syria,

The United Kingdom would budget $500 million on NATO’s intervention in Libya, while according to the UK Department of Trade and Investment, contracts to rebuild the nation would be valued at upwards of $300 billion over a 10-year period: a 600-fold return on investment.

The evil of corruption on this planet has got to be most putrid at the apex of empire, the USA, where vulture capital rules the roost, and divvies up an enormous pot of carrion from all the wars and other scams like the wealth-care system, more often known by the misnomer of health care. The official corruption indices put out by the OECD and their ilk are not to be trusted. In "less-developed countries," at least corruption gives something to the little guy -- corruption is more democratic in a place where you can get out of a traffic ticket for a couple bucks. And everybody knows perfectly well the government is on the take. In some ways this is better. It creates an atmosphere of skepticism towards politics as a game, rather than the crushing, almost criminal naïveté of the average American, which allows the US government to get away with mass murder.

Under a well-settled authoritarian government, you will find way more political free speech than in a dumbed-down democracy. The people understand a lot more, and have more to say about it, than in some passive communities with a fake two-party system. What use is freedom of speech if no one is even thinking about anything? On these lines my sentiments are echoed by Syrian Girl Partisan in one of her most popular videos, DeMockracy is a Farce.

As I was searching for some mention of privatization plans for Syria (they are keeping it very quiet, loose lips sink partnerships) I chanced on a Jerusalem Post piece about Syrian businessman Rami Makhlouf. He made a fortune in Syrian mobile telephony, had a good word to say about his cousin Bashar Al-Assad, and had his assets frozen for his freedom of speech. I was reminded that recently an FSA supporter on twitter, one of the Frenzied Stooge Activists, or more likely a neo-con fellow-travelling troll, claimed that the Assad and Makhlouf family own 60% of the Syrian economy, which sounds fantastic, but then the FSA lie every time.

Compared to the "democracy" gifted by the US-instigated color revolution to Albania, Assad and Makhlouf have been a lot better for Syria. The first thing "freedom" and "revolution" brought to Albania were the wreckers, hooligans who went about smashing factories and greenhouses because they were "state" property. The desired result (for certain countries desirous of "new markets") -- once-autarkic Albania no longer manufactures anything, so the people must try to survive by selling each other imported things. One FSA-sympathizing journo had a brief moment of lucidity when she interviewed a family who told her how one such youth wrecked the only cash machine in their small Syrian town, because it "belonged to the state" -- although it was the only way the town's workers had of getting paid.

In Albania you now have a grotesque farce of a two-party system, "Democratic" and "Socialist," who take turns robbing the country mercilessly. The party heads are two improbably greedy thieves, Sali Berisha and Fatos Nano. The latter's arrogant young wife is said to have "privatized" (stolen) a big part of the economy. The ill-gotten proceeds are not spent within Albania. The government is practically bankrupt, public school is on half-day sessions with 40 kids to a classroom, there is no water or light most of the time in most districts -- the fount of international largesse sung by the SNC was somehow never connected to the mains. The Albanian state's only major money-maker was the phone company, which was sold off to Turkish "investors." The new mobile phone companies busily sucking up excess cash are foreign, too (owned by British, Greek, and German telecoms).

At least Syria has its own phones, and phone bills go to pay Syrian workers. If Syria is defeated, it will become just another kleptocratic colony, run by "democratic" puppets who sell out their country for a slice of the spoils.

An old corrupt bunch are usually better than a new one. They are satiated, and as they feel they own the place, over time they may see their interests converge with those of the country itself. A new lot of arrivistes are greedy to outdo their predecessors before their term is up. Worst of all, in a Western-leaning clique, the "in thing" is to have everything imported from London. The new kleptocrats will rush to spend every pound outside the country, sucking their own economy dry.

Who pulled the trigger first? Who had the motive and the plan?

Another favorite opposition argument is that peaceful protesters restrained themselves for a long time, until the "brutal crack-down by the Assad regime" stoked their rage and they started to fight back. However, the facts show that violence began almost from the start, so quickly that it is very hard to figure out who fired first. Michel Chossudovsky of Global Research analysed the evidence in a May 2011 article, "Syria: Who is Behind The Protest Movement? Fabricating a Pretext for a US-NATO 'Humanitarian Intervention.'" He writes,

The Western media has presented the events in Syria as part of the broader Arab pro-democracy protest movement, spreading spontaneously from Tunisia, to Egypt, and from Libya to Syria.
Media coverage has focussed on the Syrian police and armed forces, which are accused of indiscriminately shooting and killing unarmed "pro-democracy" demonstrators. While these police shootings did indeed occur, what the media failed to mention is that among the demonstrators there were armed gunmen as well as snipers who were shooting at both the security forces and the protesters.

Chossudovsky notes that the protests started not in Damascus, where the authentic internal opposition is based, but in Daraa (or Deraa), a small town of 75,000 souls on the border with Jordan. The pattern has held throughout -- the FSA always concentrates on targets near borders, as they must be supplied from foreign countries.

The first fatalities in Daraa were seven policemen and four armed protesters. Some or all of the dead may have been shot by mysterious snipers on rooftops, who were shooting at BOTH police and protesters. In Syrian state TV footage used by the BBC, it says on the screen, "You are seeing gunmen shooting at unarmed civilians and security forces."

Why shoot at both sides? To stoke enmity and violence between the two sides. What would be the motive? For violent elements to take over the protest movement and overthrow the state.

In other words, as the BBC put it in their emotion-charged video "Inside the Secret Revolution," the snipers were "agents provocateur." But the BBC claims these provocateurs were plainclothes government thugs -- the "Shabiha." The word means "spooks," and refers to a gang of Latakia port smugglers, among them a nephew of Hafez Assad, during the 70's and '80s. Hafez Assad suppressed them in the 90s, and they were disbanded in 2000.

Up until the stage of open warfare this summer made it impossible, drumbeaters for war on Syria have blamed all killings by terrorists on the Shabiha. Yet there is very little evidence for their "ghostly" existence (other than the usual "unconfirmed activist reports" and dubious videos).

Of course, the last thing a government wants to do is stoke internal violence, and even less, to kill its own security forces. The Syrian authorities were doing what any state does, to try and restore law and order, not to pour oil on flames and engulf itself.

Rather than "cracking down," the authorities immediately tried to calm the situation by offering to release the students who had been arrested, but the mobs went ahead and set fire to government buildings. Were they paid or incited to do this?

The Biased Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC

The BBC don't try to explain why the government would want to provoke violence. We know, however, from the US Unconventional Warfare manual TC 18-01, that the US does use this kind of violent destabilization tactic. The BBC then present a "witness" (with face dramatically hidden from the camera), allegedly a Syrian army defector. His wild story would have fetched a good price on the Lebanese border. Officers allegedly ordered their men at gunpoint to shoot, saying, "Don't shoot the 'armed groups,' they are with us. There are no rebels, no conspirators, just the people. Shoot the people." According to this Hollywood-cartoon-villain self-indictment, the officers shot dead seven men because they had refused to shoot the protesters! A shocking but inherently absurd script with a slick presentation that still makes a strong impression.

A month later, as the army occupies Daraa to try to restore order, Al-Jazeera reports this hellish scenario: people don't dare to go in the streets because "plain clothes thugs and secret police" snipers on rooftops are shooting both civilians and soldiers. Based on "unconfirmed activist reports" of course. But we have a report from Webster Tarpley on the same situation in Homs in November. Tarpley told that the people of Homs begged for the Army to come restore order. Meanwhile the Big Lie Media pinned blame on Assad for the havoc wreaked by the FSA there, always claiming the rooftop snipers were Assad's -- one form of their video lies.

I've just completed about one week of fact-finding tour of the country and I've been in Homs, I've been in Tartus, Banias, I've been in the military hospital here in Baghdad, and I can tell you what average everyday Syrians of all ethnic groups -- Christian, Sunni, Shiite, Alawite, Druze -- what they say about this, is that they are being shot at by snipers. In Homs in particular they are saying that there are terrorist snipers shooting at civilians, men women and children. Blind terrorism, random killing, simply for the purpose of destabilizing the country. I would not call this a civil war by any stretch of the imagination. I think that's a very, very misleading term in the following sense. What you're dealing with here are death squads. You're dealing here with terror commandos, the kind of thing that everybody remembers from Argentina and Central America. This is a typical CIA method. In this case it's a joint production of the CIA, MI-6, Mossad, DGSE of the French. It's got money coming from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

All throughout 2011 and up until the surge on Damascus and Aleppo, the MSM try to pretend that all killings have been carried out either by the army or the Shabiha, never by the FSA. FSA terrorists sometimes even dress in Syrian Army uniforms, to reflect blame for their terror acts on army. Total casualty figures are inflated, packaged as civilian deaths and laid at the government's door in full, without detailing how many were combatants.

It takes careful analysis, but when the effort is made, it never seems to fail: the MSM narrative is always a Big Lie, where atrocities are groundlessly blamed on government forces. One is tempted to simply ignore the MSM.

When a government carries out a false flag, they are always quick to point the blame at their target. Thus the BBC was quick to blame "government death squads," but the Syrians were puzzled. They did not leap to tell the story that would work for them and say, these are CIA death squads -- they just called them "protesters." A similar time lapse was seen after the Houla massacre, where the media accused the Syrian army of shelling civilians. The government was non-plussed and could only protest innocence. It took a while for the truth to come out -- that the massacre was carried out by FSA jihadists, who had cut the throats of Assad supporters with knives. No traces of government shelling were to be seen, and the photo they had shown of bodies strewn everywhere was from a scene in Baghdad... But the media had scored their points, and the USUK had used the massacre to tighten sanctions on Syria, with no looking back. This is full-blooded war propaganda, creating facts on the ground, and the Anglo-Americans have always been the top specialists at it.

The "Shabiha" -- Ghosts of Ghosts

I have seen innumerable cases where photos of civilians killed by "shabiha" were debunked as fakes, and not one confirmed one yet. If real photos were available, "activists" would not resort to faking them, with the risk of being found out. This leads to the conclusion that there are no real photos, and I have been assured by an anti-FSA activist who checked into this in the first few months and found that all photos of government atrocities were fakes.

It's logical that the intentional civilian killings are carried out by the FSA, as they have the motive -- it destabilizes Syria. One, they can blame the killings on "Shabiha." Two, they hope to terrorize the populace into supporting them. Three, it weakens the country and may weaken the people's will to resist takeover by the US proxies. Some grief-stricken families may turn against the government for not stopping the FSA from killing their loved ones. This is all tried and true insurrectionary tactics.

Meanwhile the government has every motive and makes every effort not to kill civilians, but it must defeat armed insurrection.

Torture

Another reason given for opposition to Assad is torture.
Torture is a bad thing, no question about it.
It causes psychological damage to victims, and even to its practitioners. And to no purpose - it doesn't even work nearly as well as soft indoctrination.
Torture should be eliminated. However, it is not the reason the US wants to topple Assad.
A few years ago, under the practice of "extraordinary rendition," the US even sent "terrorist suspects" to Syria to be tortured. The US also tortures inmates in Guantanamo. Torture is a worldwide problem.
If activists want to end torture, is making war on Syria the best way to go about it? No. Allowing reforms to take root, allowing a multiparty democracy to develop, is the best hope to end the practice.
War on Syria will lead to more, not less terror. Government officials lack experts in soft indoctrination methods, yet feel the need to find out if detainees are just "peaceful protesters" or armed militants. And the torture of civilians by the FSA is much more brutal than that by the state. The Al Berri clan were beaten and bloodied before being shredded in a machine gun fusillade.

Shelling Residential Areas

This is an issue that has worried me, as seen in earlier blog entries below.
The media like to call this "Assad using the army to attack his own people," as they are fishing for a UN resolution under the R2P "responsibility to protect" theory.
Let's ask opposition activists why the FSA is using residential areas as human shields? The activists will probably say it's OK for revolutionaries.
Do they know this is a war crime, as security expert Charles Shoebridge pointed out the other day, in a tweet to Human Rights Watch reminding them of their own position -- "all sides must avoid deploying military targets such as fighters or weapons in or near densely populated areas, and they must try to remove civilians from areas of military operations."
In other words, endangering civilians by mounting a guerrilla warfare operation in cities and towns is a war crime in itself, not to mention the acts of terror against non-combatants by the invading mercenaries.
While sharing my sentiment that we'd like it if a more limited type of response could eradicate the insurgents' occupation of urban areas, Shoebridge also noted, "A person who knows about military matters knows this is what happens in urban war. Rebels condemned by UN for exactly this."
Sometimes the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) shells areas where FSA snipers have occupied the rooftops. Under cover of artillery fire, SAA is able to take back the high ground. It's a question of tactics.
The army has made statements that they are striving to minimize civilian casualties, by advancing slowly on terrorist nests, giving civilians a chance to flee.
The FSA also do have some heavy weapons and mortars, which they are known to lob unprovoked into peaceful civilian areas.

According to carefully-laid plans

We've seen now that the motivation for violence rests squarely with the Evil Empire, not with the Syrian state. As for the Empire's evil plan, an updated version of it was published by Michel Chossudovsky on Aug. 3 in "Towards A 'Soft Invasion'? The Launching of a 'Humanitarian War' against Syria". He writes,

Rather than carrying out an all out Blitzkrieg, the US-NATO-Israel military alliance has chosen to intervene under the diabolical R2P frame of "humanitarian warfare". Modelled on Libya, the following broad stages are envisaged:

1) A US-NATO backed insurgency [involving] by death squads is launched under the disguise of a "protest movement" (mid-March 2011 in Daraa)
2) British, French, Qatari and Turkish Special Forces are on the ground in Syria, advising and training the rebels as well as overseeing special operations. Mercenaries hired by private security companies are also involved in supporting rebels forces
3) The killings of innocent civilians by the Free Syrian Army (FSA) are deliberately carried out as part of a covert intelligence operation. (See SYRIA: Killing Innocent Civilians as part of a US Covert Op. Mobilizing Public Support for a R2P War against Syria, Global Research, May 2012 )
4) The Syrian government is then blamed for the resulting atrocities. Media disinformation is geared towards demonizing the Syrian government. Public opinion is led into endorsing a military intervention on humanitarian grounds.
5) Responding to public outrage, US-NATO is then "forced to step in" under a Humanitarian "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) mandate. Media propaganda goes into high gear. "The International Community" comes to the rescue of the Syrian people."
6) Warships and fighter jets are then deployed to the Eastern Mediterranean. These actions are coordinated with logistical support to the rebels and Special forces on the ground.
7) The final objective is "regime change" leading to the "break-up of the country" along sectarian lines and/or the installation of an "Islamist-dominated or influenced regime" modelled on Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
8) War plans in relation to Syria are integrated with those pertaining to Iran. The road to Tehran goes through Damascus. The broader implications of US-NATO intervention are military escalation and the possible unleashing of a regional war extending from the Eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia, in which China and Russia could be directly or indirectly involved.

Stages 1 through 4 have already been implemented.

Stage 5 has been announced.

Progressives for and Against Assad Want the Same Things After All

If you ask progressive pro- and anti-government activists what is their vision for Syria, it probably comes down to the same shopping list:
- secular, pluralist, parliamentary democracy
- freedom of speech and political association
- security and safety, human rights, women's rights, no police brutality
- continuation of the policy of resistance to zionism, no peace without the Golan Heights
- national unity, economic independence and development

For some progressives like me, it was clear before the fiasco of Aleppo and Damascus that the best chance for Syria to reach these goals was to give the reform constitution a chance. After Aleppo, it became clear to many more people that the armed militants would deliver just the opposite. They represent the worst of all possible worlds - a descent into the kind of hell the Ugly American Empire has left behind in Somalia or Afghanistan. A shattered landscape of feuding warlords, a human rights catastrophe that makes feudalism look like Utopia, Syria as a pariah and an appendage of Israel, carved up like the map under the French mandate, and ironically under the same flag.

Why do Revolutions Backfire?

Like begets like. Due process leads to democracy. Violence leads to tyranny.

It's not clear though how many "opposition activists" really are inspired by revolutionary or democratic sentiment, and how many are trolls. Neo-con wolves in lefty clothing reflect perfectly the duplicitous essence of Color Revolution Technology.

Aug. 10

CLASSICAL LORE

To celebrate Syria's victory in Aleppo, let's relax for a moment and muse on some ancient lore of Syria and Iran.

Yesterday’s conference of 30 nations in Tehran reminded me of the famous masterpiece of the Iranian mystical poet Attar, The Conference of the Birds, also translated as The Parliament of the Birds. In this tale, all kinds of birds of the world, thirty in number, convene to elect a King. The wisest of them, the hoopoe bird, proposes they set out in search of the mythical bird Simurgh, a sort of phoenix. When they reach the Simurgh's home, what they find is a pond. As they see themselves reflected in it, they realize that they themselves are their own King. They are the Simurgh, which in a Persian play on words sounds like “thirty birds.”

The thirty nations assembled in Tehran need no superpower to lord it over them. They only need recognize their own potential, and they can be their own King.

The Thirty nations do not need to subject themselves to the evil king of Wall Street. The real Free World consists of those striving for freedom from the yoke of the Ugly American empire, with its lies, threats, depravity, plunder, genocide, its think tanks and spy banks endlessly churning out malevolent machinations.

The SCO, BRICS, non-aligned movement, the Simurgh of Tehran -- these are the new Free World.

It was in Syria in September of the year 1260 that the Mongol hordes reached the high-water mark of their sweep to world empire, and were turned back at the celebrated Battle of Ain Jalut. The Mongols had sacked Baghdad and many other cities, so that one city after another surrendered in terror without a fight.

But Qutuz, the Mamluk sultan of Cairo, had the temerity to execute the Mongol emissaries who brought him the demand to surrender. Marching north, he joined forces with a Syrian Mamluk commander. Together they outmaneuvered and routed a Mongol army.

The myth of Mongol invincibilty was broken, and the civilizations of the Middle East and Europe were saved from destruction by the barbaric, ruthless and cunning Mongol armies. The Muslims had carefully studied the Mongol tactics and found their weak point.

Today's Mongol horde has been defeated in Syria once again. For the nations yearning to break free from superpower blackmail, there is nothing to fear but fear itself. As long as Syria listened to the demands of the UN, the emissary of the US reign of terror, she was doomed. Taking their destiny in their own hands, the Syrian army have freed their country from the hordes of terror.

The MSM are MUM about their twin defeats in Damascus and Aleppo, but reviewing media reports on the margins, it looks like the Evil Empire has taken a pretty bad fall. Excellent analysis here of the predicament Turkey now finds itself in: "Davutoglu: Betting on the Fall of Assad." I particularly liked this pungent comment by one reader:

As EMERGING ECONOMIC GIANT, the game plan to DESTROY TURKEY has Emerged from The West,Russia and China!
The west did NOT want Turkey to dominate and lead Arabs nor any Middle Eastern countries as they already had their ZIONIST Baby!
Russians DID NOT WANT TURKEY as it would threaten Southern Russia,TARTaRISTaN etc etc
And Their STANS who are basically Turkish Origins! Then China was fearful of East Turkistan
Yes,Turkey fell into the CAREFULLY LAID TRAP and it is NOW ON THE PATH OF BALKANISATION!
HOW STUPID THE TURKS ARE ! they thought of themselves as EUROPEANS but EU showed them the door STILL THEY DID NOT GET THE MESSAGE!
By getting INVOLVED IN SYRIA TURKS HAVE LOST A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
BY FOLLOWING THE WEST WHO CANNOT BE TRUSTED!

As I wrote to a friend 10 days ago, "The Turks are not even Arabs. The Anglos are letting the Turkish New Ottoman card be played precisely because it can not work."

Here, another interesting piece on the blowback in Turkey. An apoplectic Erdogan raves that Assad is not even a Muslim!
But Turkey's overconfident leaders have only themselves to blame. They did not keep an eye on their backside - their Kurdish nemesis.

Regarding the summit in Tehran, the theme was as billed, "a political solution by Syrians themselves." Communiquè here, with list of attendees. It supports the right of Syrians to take their path to reform without outside intervention, and calls for humanitarian assistance. Some observers counted it historic that 30 countries even dared to attend to talk about belling the cat, at the invitation of blackballed Iran, at that. The only concrete proposal was the formation of a "Contact Group on Syria."

We know the Evil Empire is not going to give up easily and that Unconventional Warfare is a long-term war of attrition. Their first new twist may be the old French Foreign Legion. Press TV reports the French are sending soldiers to the Syria-Jordan border to "help the refugees." My French dictionary says this is an idiomatic expression for "re-arm the bandits." Interesting thing in the abbreviations, too. FSA stands for "Force Sioniste Auxiliare."

Strange, at two major French MSM websites (france24 & nouvelobs) featuring this story, they have a window to post a comment... but there are no comments. HMM..MUM.

Aug. 8HOW SYRIA CAN WIN

The small nation of Syria is under attack by the most powerful nation on earth, the USA, with a crew of vassals who are themselves among the most powerful nations in the region: Turkey, Saudi Arabia and hiding in the background, Israel. These powerful enemies are also using one of the most powerful and sophisticated forms of warfare ever devised: the synthetic insurgency.

The doctrine for this advanced type of war is set out by the US Department of "Defense" (occupied almost exclusively with offense) in their confidential "Unconventional Warfare" (UW) manual (pdf) . This leaked document makes it crystal clear how each step of Syria's destabilization was carefully planned. Online defenders of Syria have typed volumes about the psychological warfare tactics of disinformation, the Big Lies, the video fakery and media bias, that are prescribed there.

So far, however, I have not seen any attempts to use this manual to help devise a winning strategy to defeat a synthetic insurgency, or invasion in disguisen. Of course, once you know how something works, you also see many points where you can stop it from working. That will be the goal of this essay.

LEVELS OF INVOLVEMENT

The UW manual (txt) begins with three possible stages of UW (Unconventional Warfare): Indirect, direct, and combat support. Indirect support is chosen when "overt US support is undesirable." The US "may indirectly render support though a coalition partner or a third country."
This "indirect" support already goes quite far, as when we see a nerve center for the "rebels" set up at a US base in Turkey. Yet thanks to proxies such as Libyan jihadists, the US has already escalated to the most advanced phase of combat support, while pretending not to be involved.

Application: Point to this US UW manual (and other documents like the Path to Persia memo) to break down the naïveté of those who refuse to admit the US is the moving force behind the unrest.

FEASIBILITY

"1-13. There are specific physical and environmental conditions that allow for a successful resistance or insurgency. The three main conditions are a weakened or unconsolidated government or occupying power, a segmented population, and favorable terrain from which an element can organize and wage subversion and armed resistance."

These conditions did not exist in Syria, but the US has worked to generate them artificially.

1. "It is extremely difficult to organize successful resistance under a fully consolidated government or occupying power with a strong internal security apparatus."

Under Hafez Assad, the "Arab Spring" would not have been possible, but his British-trained son Bashar al Assad has been solicitous to open up Syrian society to reforms. As commentators like Tarpley, Meyssan, Chossudovsky or Cartalucci have ably documented, "pro-democracy" and "human rights" NGO's have created a ferment in recent years, which has markedly weakened the government's hold on raw power -- even though Bashar al Assad's reforms have probably improved its popularity and legitimacy. The "Arab Spring" was always really an Arab Sting.

Application: Authority can be based on respect rather than fear, on delivering basic needs, and using the media well to reinforce positive attitudes, as we see in stable "democracies." A police state is not what Syria wants, but nor is it the only way to consolidate power.

2. A segmented population. While there are different religious affiliations in Syria, most Syrians are Syrian first. They would be about as likely to start a sectarian war as Catholics vs. Protestants in the US today. Foreign observers love to emphasize religious differences. Did US planners think "Sunni" Wahhabite jihadist fighters would strike a chord with the Sunni majority in Syria? More likely they just figured such people are handy cannon fodder to inflict damage cheaply. If they do win, it will be easy to pick leaders to make Syria another emirate -- or a failed state like Afghanistan, to the infinite joy of perennial enemy Israel.

Remedy: In media messages, underline that We Syrians are all together. Lampoon the cartoon-like jihadists and their Wall Street backers as alien and repellent to Syrian values.

3. The "favorable terrain" or safe haven for terrorists is located on Syria's borders, especially with NATO client Turkey. This is why all the unrest has been in cities close to the borders, never in the center of the country.

Remedy: Secure the international borders, not only to keep new fighters out, but to deny those in country the chance to regroup and re-arm. Ask friendly nations to form a coalition and assist with troops for border guard duty. This will also enormously increase the cost for the US should it be tempted to go over to direct combat support. Taking into account the diplomatic necessities of friendly or neutral nations, the border guards might function as replacements for UN monitors. Where acceptable, it may be desirable for them to be under Syrian command.

THE INFOWAR

"1-16. Information activities that increase dissatisfaction with the hostile regime or occupier and portray the resistance as a viable alternative are important components of the resistance effort. These activities can increase support for the resistance through persuasive messages that generate sympathy among populations."

They employ a two-edged policy of damning the government and glorifying the "insurgents."

The tactic of "Bashar-bashing" is rife in the mainstream media. Even sympathetic commentators like Robert Fisk or George Galloway in the West seem compelled to cross themselves and ritually slam Bashar al Assad. Due to media bias, a blackout of the Syrian viewpoint and perhaps unfamiliarity with modern public relations principles by the Syrian government itself, the smear campaign is being contested in English largely by online activists. They are themselves greatly outnumbered by the "Free Syria" variety, especially in English but also in Arabic.

The principle is simple: exacerbate all underlying frustrations, blame the political apparatus for all the problems, manipulate the youth according to the Freudian "patricidal" scenario, organize a coup, and then propagandize that the government was brought down by the “street.”

Some talking points to emphasize in the Syrian narrative.- the genuine democratic opposition are welcome, responsible adults. They ran in elections and won some seats and two ministerial posts
- protesters are spoiled children who, once they saw they weren't going to win the voting game, want to dash the pieces from the board
- the US escalated hostilities when they saw the election pre-empting their claims of trying to support democracy. They used foreign fighters because real Syrians want a political solution, not to kill other Syrians and destroy Syria.
- Expose the technology of color revolutions, Soros, NED and how it fits into the synthetic insurgency strategy.
- Expose the Big Lie about the "brutal regime attacking its own people" and how it is prescribed in the UW plan. Syrian witnesses note how some protesters (hotheads or agents provocateurs) were violent "from the first day," attacking police first, who were then forced to act in self-defence. A planned provocation was for snipers to shoot both demonstrators and police, to instigate mutual hostility; the Syrian Army reported capturing one such provocateur.
- in such cases, the Syrian state media should be active in supplying footage of high propaganda value. A recent example was the capture by the SAA of Turkish and Saudi officers on the ground directing the terrorists. Televised statements by the invaders, perhaps?

With the Ramadan escalation, the carefully prepared disguise of idealistic, defenseless protesters has taken a beating. The foreign jihadists and death squads have shown their ugly face.

REIGN OF TERROR

The jihadist resistance is not a viable alternative because of:
- random killing of civilians, ethnic cleansing of minorities, ransacking and shelling of homes. These foreign elements have no understanding of Syria's tolerant, pluralist secular state. They are paid by the enemies of Syria, and they are a plague.

"1-17. In almost every scenario, resistance movements face a population with an active minority supporting the government and an equally small militant faction supporting the resistance movement (Figure 1-2). For the resistance to succeed, it must convince the uncommitted middle population, which includes passive supporters of both sides, to accept it as a legitimate entity."

At this stage it would appear the "FSA" has lost credibility in their Ramadan surge. Highly publicized defections may be presumed to be bought and don't necessarily reflect the attitudes of the street.

However, the danger is that the US is using the jihadists to cause damage, as a pretext for responsibility to protect, or to play the broker who will sponsor another stripe of "rebels." They may do this by recruiting mercenaries and activists within Syria, and taking more care to keep the militants on message with the alleged political program.

The broad majority want security, and if terrorists are allowed to institute a reign of terror, people will be forced to surrender to them. Therefore Syria is doing the necessary thing by taking vigorous military action to restore order.

WE ARE THE REVOLUTION

Meyssan again: "A genuine revolution entails an upheaval in social structures that takes place over several years, while a 'color revolution' is a regime change that occurs within weeks. The other term for a forced change of leadership without social transformation is a "coup d’état'".

In other words, Assad's new constitution, which ends the one-party state and bars him from serving again after his term expires in 2014, and the new elections -- these reforms ARE the Syrian revolution. The crowds of over one million cheering for Assad are the revolution. The handfuls of fools protesting violently are part of the counter-revolution, as they provide a useful mask for the provocateurs hired by the US and proxies. They are only a fraction of a thousandth of the population, yet they receive 99% of mainstream media (MSM) attention, while the huge pro-government rallies are ignored or dismissed. This is because the MSM are part of the UW arsenal.

Distinguish Bashar al-Assad from Hafez al-Assad. Hark back to early reports of his intentions for reform. The Syrian old guard probably resisted these notions, knowing (even without reading the UW manual, of course) that this would open the country to subversion by the US. As Joe Quinn noted in Syria's Bloody CIA Revolution - A Distraction?

"Some Arab governments that refuse to submit to Western and Israeli dominance are continually harassed and destabilized to the point that they are forced, in order to survive, to develop a security infrastructure that is, to one extent or another, totalitarian. Western powers and the Israelis can then, when it suits them best, decry the lack of ‘freedom’ within the targeted nation and begin overthrowing the government."

The road to reform is very risky because it opens society to subversion. Friendly media and commentators should not fall into the trap of being politically correct and making ritual references disparaging Assad or the "brutal regime" (allowing that in many cases the pill may be poison-coated by editors.) The old trick of "giving a dog a bad name to hang it" is being used by the US to try and escalate, from the stage of proxies to a full-fledged aerial and ground NATO attack on Syria, under the insidious "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) theory.

UW is military aggression, facilitated by the diplomatic and media sides of the enemy offensive. It is not about diplomacy per se. Enemy rhetoric to the contrary, their aim is not any kind of political compromise or accommodation, no matter how nice a target nation tries to be. The aim is to destroy Syria sheer and simple, for long-held and sufficient strategic reasons of the US and Israel.

Hoping to curry favor by obeisances to themes of the "international community" is self-defeating. One example was Assad's attempt to abide by the UN-sponsored cease-fire, which only allowed the invaders to entrench their position. The Syrian army held back too long from a counter-attack in Homs, which allowed jihadists to paralyze and destroy much of the city, and ethnically cleanse the Christian community. In past years, Syria attempted to play along with the IMF, which led to the creation of a nouveau riche élite with a motive to overthrow the socially-oriented Syrian state.
WHO IS KILLING CIVILIANS?

Syrian voices must hammer away at the counter-theme that the civilians are being killed by the invaders; thus the UN has a responsibility to protect Syria from the US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and their hired death squads. Popular support is the Syrian government's chief asset, which it would be suicidal to squander. The invaders, on the contrary, are motivated to apply a satanic win-win rule.
- in the early phase the insurgent military action is mainly for show. It is more in the nature of a prop for psychological warfare, than a serious bid for military victory. Their killings will be blamed on the government by the media the US controls.
- even though terrorist killings may alienate the population, this will not be reported. The people soon become too terrorized to even dare to voice their views. Invader-held areas experience a reign of terror, which, of course, was the modus operandi of the great historical revolutions in France and Russia.

A hint of this kind of thinking is contained in the UW manual."1-43. If retaliation occurs, the resistance can exploit the negative consequences to garner more sympathy and support from the population by emphasizing the sacrifices and hardship the resistance is enduring on behalf of “the people.” If retaliation is ineffective or does not occur, the resistance can use this as proof of its ability to wage effect combat against the enemy. In addition, the resistance can portray the inability or reluctance of the enemy to retaliate as a weakness, which will demoralize enemy forces and instill a belief in their eventual defeat."

PHASES

The manual sets out seven phases through which a UW operation may develop:

Figure 1-3
PHASE I: Preparation. Resistance and external sponsors conduct psychological preparation to unify population against established government or occupying power and prepare population to accept U.S. support.
PHASE II: Initial Contact. USG [United States Government] agencies coordinate with allied government-in-exile or resistance leadership for desired U.S. support.
PHASE III: Infiltration. Special Forces team infiltrates operational area, establishes communications with its base, and contacts resistance organization.
PHASE IV: Organization. Special Forces team organizes, trains, and equips resistance cadre. Emphasis is on developing infrastructure.
PHASE V: Buildup. Special Forces team assist cadre with expansion into an effective resistance organization. Limited combat operations may be conducted, but emphasis remains on development.
PHASE VI: Employment. UW [Unconventional Warfare] forces conduct combat operations until linkup with conventional forces or end of hostilities.
PHASE VII: Transition. UW forces revert to national control, shifting to regular forces or demobilizing.

Phase VI was definitely reached with the surge after the May elections and the recent attempts to seize Damascus and Aleppo.

A U.S. PROXY INVASION, NOT AN INSURGENCY

In Ch. 2, "Fundamentals of Resistance and Insurgency," the UW Manual states,

"Insurgents are inherently indigenous... Even when the U.S. forces or foreign fighters support an insurgency or resistance movement, planners should not categorize them as part of the insurgency."

This is more than semantics -- there is quite a revealing insight here. It means that in fact, THERE IS NO INSURGENCY IN SYRIA. Any Syrians in the "Free Syrian Army" were hired or influenced and swept up by the foreign-led hysteria. This fact bears thinking about.

First of all, names are important. We should not refer to the conflict as an insurgency. This would lend it a mythic legitimacy it never had. I recommend to use instead the term U.S. PROXY INVASION.

I have also coined several names for the FSA, the not free and not Syrian army, that don't require one to constantly remember to put them in quotation marks:
Fanatical Sectarian Assassins, the jihadists.
Foolish Stooge Activists, for the Syrians camp followers and their leftish fellow travelers in the West. Filthy Swine Army, who commit the atrocities.Foreign Subversive Army, the umbrella group. I recommend using this term regularly and establishing it as the new definition of the FSA.

Once we are talking about a U.S. proxy invasion we can think more clearly about the problem, and communicate the issue clearly to others.

The first thing that becomes immediately clear is the utter depravity and hypocrisy of U.S. calls for intervention to protect the Syrian people.

The second thing is the hollowness of calls for a political solution by the Syrians themselves, without offering Syria material or military assistance or protection. If the US proxy invasion is not blocked, "leaving it to the Syrians" amounts to leaving foreign bullies a free hand to smash Syria. As we have seen, the problem is military, not political, and it did not arise from Syria, but from the Pentagon.

With the invasion paradigm, we can now begin to think about a coalition of friendly nations to supply monitors, border guards or troops secure Syria's borders against further incursions. This would be the best guarantee of Syrian independence, as set out in this blog on Aug. 6th, "A Call To Syria's Friends To Help Secure Her Borders."

Presenting the conflict as a foreign invasion will help people reject aggression against Syria, both in the West and within the Syrian opposition. Similarly the fighters should not be termed rebels; the Syrian government already calls them terrorists.

Being clear on this basic concept of a U.S. proxy invasion should lead to many fruitful ideas on how to conduct the media and military campaigns against the invasion.

What the Pentagon has done is to generate very small, artificial elements of a resistance organization, only a few thousand activists. These are greatly magnified by the MSM. Onto this wispy chimera they have grafted hard-bitten, heavily-armed foreign and foreign-led guerrilla bands..

They were following the classic steps for creating a color revolution followed by an insurgency, but the effort was pre-empted by the government's reforms, and frustrated by the refusal of over 99% of the population to participate. They then had to resort to a video-edited fake insurgency under the banner of clueless activists.

STRUCTURE OF AN INSURGENCY

Here are the steps they prescribe and follow in promoting an insurgency. Arranged in an obelisk form, with the final step at the top, it is presented in reverse chronological order.

Figure 2-2. Structure of an insurgency or resistance movement

17. Large Scale Guerrilla Actions
16. Minor Guerrilla Actions
15. Increased Political Violence and Sabotage
14. Intense Sapping of Morale (Government, Administration, Police, Military)
13. Increased Underground Activities to Demonstrate Strength of Resistance Organization and Weakness of Government
12. Overt and Covert Pressures Against Government (Strikes, Riots, and Disorder)
11. Intensification of Propaganda; Psychological Perpetration of Population for Rebellion
10. Expansion of Front Organizations
9. Establishment of National Front Organizations and Liberation Movements; Appeal to Foreign Sympathizers
8. Spreading of Subversive Organizations into All Sectors of Life of a Country
7. Penetration into Labor Unions, Student and National Organizations and all Parts of Society
6. Recruitment and Training of Resistance Cadres
5. Infiltration of Foreign Organizers and Advisors and Foreign Propaganda, Material, Money, Weapons, and Equipment
4. Increased Agitation, Unrest, and Disaffection; Infiltration of Administration, Police, Military, and National Organizations, Boycotts, Slowdowns, and Strikes
3. Agitation; Creation of Favorable Public Opinion (Advocating National Cause); Creation of Distrust of Established Institutions
2. Creating of Atmosphere of Wider Discontent Through Propaganda and Political and Psychological Effects to Discredit the Government
1. Dissatisfaction with Political, Economic, Social, Administrative, and Other Conditions; National Aspiration (Independence) or Desire for Ideological and Other Changes

This entire process could take a long time, and we can see that they have mostly skipped over steps 6 through 14. The development has gone from 5. Infiltration of Foreign Organizers and Advisors and Foreign Propaganda, Material, Money, Weapons, and Equipmentstraight to 15. Increased Political Violence and Sabotage
16. Minor Guerrilla Actions
17. Large Scale Guerrilla Actions

This could indicate that the Proxy Invasion has short legs. If Syria can score a victory over the major guerrilla actions and deny entry to further fighters, it should have a chance to consolidate support and frustrate the building of the resistance envisioned in the skipped steps six to fourteen. It may also indicate that even in the case of a short-term Syrian victory, the Pentagon goes back to the drawing board to keep working on a longer term plan.

"2-12. In general, the strategic objective is to gain concessions or remove the regime in power."
Assad has already made the concessions noted - a multi-party system in which he will not run for re-election. Any real insurgency would have a problem in offering an objective.

Talking point: the opposition has no realistic objectives beyond the reforms already set in motion.

DEPENDENT ON FOREIGN SUPPORT

"2-16. Historically, insurgencies do not succeed without some form of external support. This support can be in the form of—
• Moral or political support in the international forum.
• Resources, such as money, weapons, food, advisors, and training.
• Sanctuary, such as secure training sites, operational bases over a border, or protection from extradition."

Syria should work to cut off the proxy invasion from all three support channels. Friendly nations can drum on the proxy invasion message at the UN. Borders must be secured.

OUTRIGHT WAR

Phase II—Guerrilla Warfare
2-24. A campaign of guerrilla attacks and sabotage degrade the government’s military and police forces...

Phase III—War of Movement
2-27. The goal of the insurgency in Phase III is to bring about the collapse of the established government... This tactic can only succeed if the insurgency effectively removes the military first.

2-28. As the insurgency gains control over the country, the insurgent leadership becomes responsible for the population, resources, and territory under its control. If the insurgency fails to plan and execute posthostility activities, the population may lose confidence in the insurgency and turn to the old government, a breakaway faction, or a splinter group of the insurgency.

The fighters are not prepared to run the country. The proxy invasion campaign appears to have been launched opportunistically in hopes the Damascus government might collapse, or create opportunities for a direct NATO intervention. The fighters grossly mistreated people in areas they held.

Talking points: savage, fanatical bandits have no program for Syrian people.

For our current purposes we may pass over the rest of the discussion in Ch. 2 concerning organization of the terrorist bands. Ch. 3, Concept of Employment, is operational in nature. One important point here is that guerrilla or unconventional warfare is a long-term affair.

Given the long-term enmity of the Great Zionist Entity USA against Syria, this means the US will probably not give up if their Aleppo offensive fails. They can easily keep up a war of attrition to continue to weaken Syria, which makes it a paramount necessity to secure the borders. As I wrote here on Aug. 4th,

"Just as it is easier and cheaper to pull down a house than to raise one, the cost of war damage to Syria, already in the billions, is a large multiple of what it is costing the aggressors. Moreover, the US empire and its vassals have virtually unlimited resources. To win, it is necessary for Syria to apply an efficient strategy to maximize gains and minimize losses."

DAMAGE CONTROL

One more point relating to problems of maintaining public support for the anti-terrorist war. In my blog from Aug. 4th, "Syria Needs New Counter-Insurgency Tactics," I expressed concern that shelling buildings held by urban guerrillas could be self-defeating. I noted the cost in damage to Syria is much higher than to the invaders and questioned whether other tactics need to be found to deal with low-grade, hit-and-run guerrilla warfare. One tactic is to occupy the high ground, or roofs in the city. The SAA often uses shelling as cover for their sharpshooters to get into rooftop positions. Normally shelling occurs after residents have evacuated. The FSA also use RPG's and mortars to shell buildings, even occupied ones. Notwithstanding, I believe it may be useful in future to develop slower but less costly siege tactics to smoke out terrorists.

Two phrases from Vietnam stick in my mind: "Destroy the village in order to save it," and "The battle for hearts and minds."
And here a new quote, from a soldier in Homs: "A house, street and store may have been ruined, those can be rebuilt. If our country goes, we can't replace it." Well said.

Suggestion: A smaller cordon sanitaire around each terrorist stronghold, cutting them off from supplies and ammunition. A great big cordon sanitaire securing the nation's borders to likewise deny the terrorists entry or escape. The SAA knows this; In Aleppo-Salaheddin this week, they nearly encircled the FSA, causing them to flee with great losses.

OFFENSE IS THE BEST DEFENSEAlthough Syria is badly outgunned in the media battlefield, she has a powerful message. The Syrian model offers Arab dignity, resistance to zionism, religious tolerance, a pluralist democracy, and a progressive system providing social justice - values that attract the Arab masses.

When I first heard of Color Revolutions for the Arab world, the Arab Spring, I thought someone in Washington had made a huge blunder. Give the Arabs real democracy, and they will join the Axis of Resistance, send the IMF packing, put the oil fields into a trust for the Ummah, strip the effete, backward emirs of their ill-deserved titles and property, and withdraw support for the US dollar fiat scrip.

A majority of the Turkish people oppose Erdogan's criminally insane venture against Syria. Syria knows it can play the Kurdish card by offering autonomy within its pluralistic democracy, as Iraq has already done for their piece of Kurdistan. Turkey, with its own history of dirty wars against the Kurds, will then be the odd man out.

The recent uprisings in the grotesquely feudal dictatorship of Bahrain and in the Eastern, Shiite part of Saudi Arabia may also be harbingers. The Sunni majority in Saudia is still quiescent as yet, but the oil is concentrated in the eastern part of the country.

Talking points for the Offensive: Syria should appeal to the Arab world to rise up against those false leaders who are so corrupt they write a blank check for the US rape of Syria. Call on their people to follow the Syrian way.

Efforts should be made to reason with prisoners of war to convert them to this view. This will give experience in dealing with the psychology of these people. They can then be sent as experienced operatives to organize opposition against the ilk of Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and even the "democratic" United States, where two out of three people oppose involvement against Syria.

Well, I know I'm dreaming, but if anyone can get this to the meeting of foreign ministers in Tehran tomorrow, Aug. 9th, that would be wonderful.

I posted the following comment at this page (comments are moderated and so far none have been published).

How can there be any political solution possible so long as the instigator of the troubles, the USA and its proxies, are seeking a solution by force, invading Syria with their special forces - fanatics, mercenaries and death squads, attempting to spark a civil war and tear the country apart.
The only solution possible for Syria against this military attack is to defeat the insurgency militarily.
Countries who wish to preserve the peace in Syria, and give the Syrian army a chance to defeat terrorism within its borders, would be most helpful by sending defensive troops to secure Syria's borders, preventing further incursions.
It is easier to carry out a guerrilla war than a counter-insurgency operation. Even a few thousand insurgents create enormous problems for the Syrian army. If Iran, Russia and other friends of Syria offer only words, that is not enough to stop the bullets and bombs of further thousands of trained insurgents. Concrete action to defend Syria is called for. Securing the borders against foreign invaders would be the appropriate step, leaving the internal fight to the Syrian Army.
The US redoubled its campaign of terror in June, after the elections held by the Syrian government in May, which had opened the way to a multi-party system, and in which a number of sincere opposition candidates were elected. Thus the US showed it had zero interest in a political solution.
The fake "opposition" which has been carefully fostered by the US, as part of its Unconventional Warfare practices, heaped scorn on the elections, knowing they had far too little popular support to gain power through the ballot.
Mr. Assad has taken great pains to open Syria to a democratic transition, but this is not what the US and its proxies want. They know that a freely elected government in Syria, or in any Arab state, would not agree to be a US puppet.
The fight is about imperialism and neo-colonialism, and not about democracy. If Iran, Russia, China etc. do not defend Syria, it will not be long before they, too, are targeted by this most sinister form of attack.

In other words, a friend in need is a friend in deed. When our friend is assailed by a band of murderers, to offer mere words is to consign him to his fate.
Words alone never put out a fire, saved a drowning man, or put one brick on top of another. If Syria's friends value the Syrian Arab Republic, it is time they showed their true colors, took their courage in their hands and helped Syria face down the enemy.

It might be a lot to ask of any one country to bell the USUK-NATO cat on its own. Much more impressive, too, would be a multinational force. Call it a coalition... call it a cordon sanitaire, call it standing fast against terrorism. There is no better topic and time for the ministers to discuss on Thursday.

Update (Aug. 9) We have it from a highly reliable source that this is exactly what needs to be done. On Aug. 7, Hillary (Aka Hitlery Aka Killery) Clinton threatened anyone “attempting to exploit the misery of the Syrian people, either by sending in proxies or sending in terrorist fighters.” Such an exact description she could only have found from looking in the mirror. So thanks for the hot tip, little Hitlery. U R a textbook psychiatric case.

If that wasn't enough, today it was reported that France is sending troops to the "Syria-Jordan border to aid refugees." As PartisanGirl said on Twitter, "probably training terrorists."

Aug 4.

SYRIA NEEDS NEW COUNTER-INSURGENCY TACTICS

Following early reports on the battle for Aleppo, I see a danger that Syria may become entrapped in a strategy that appears to bring victories over Foreign Subversive Army units, while actually achieving a US objective: massive collateral damage and destruction in Syria's own cities. A further problem arises from the fact that such damage will be distorted by the heavily biased global controlled media to underline calls for "humanitarian" military intervention à la Libya.

Just as it is easier and cheaper to pull down a house than to raise one, the cost of war damage to Syria, already in the billions, is a large multiple of what it is costing the aggressors. Moreover, the US empire and its vassals have virtually unlimited resources. To win, it is necessary for Syria to apply an efficient strategy to maximize gains and minimize losses.

Syria's army is a conventional force suitable for engaging another army such as Israel's in a conventional conflict. However, Syria now faces a different type of foe, an armed insurrection. Looking for more information about counterinsurgency tactics, I found this article, written from the American viewpoint with regard to insurgency in Iraq: "Military Doctrine, Guerrilla Warfare and Counterinsurgency" http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/military_doctrine_guerrilla_warfare_and_counterinsurgency

"The essential problem is that the basic unit of guerrilla warfare is the individual and the squad. They are frequently unarmed -- having hidden their weapons -- and when armed, they carry man-portable weapons such as rifles, rocket-propelled grenades or mortars. When unarmed, they cannot be easily distinguished from the surrounding population. And they arm themselves at a time and place of their choosing -- selected to minimize the probability of detection and interception.

"Guerrilla war, particularly in its early stages, is extremely resistant to conventional military force because the massed systems that dominate mainstream operations cannot engage the guerrilla force. Indeed, even if collateral damage were not an issue -- and it almost always is -- the mass annihilation or deportation of a population does not, in itself, guarantee the elimination of the guerilla force. So long as a single survivor knows the location of the weapons caches, the guerrilla movement can readily revive itself.

"Therefore, in modern military thinking, a second, parallel military structure has emerged: counter-insurgency forces. Operating under various names, counter-insurgency troops try to overcome the lack of surgical precision of conventional forces. They carry out a number of functions:

"1. Engage guerrilla forces on a symmetrical level, while having access to technologically superior force as needed.
2. Collect intelligence on guerrilla concentrations for use by larger formations.
3. Recruit and train indigenous forces to engage guerrilla forces.
4. Organize operations designed to drive a wedge between the guerrillas and population.

"The basic units carrying out these counter-insurgency missions have two components. First, there are Special Forces -- highly trained and motivated light infantry -- intended to carry out the primary missions. Second, there are more conventional forces, either directly attached to the primary group or available on request, designed to multiply the force when it becomes engaged."

The article goes into the problems of a foreign power carrying out a counter insurgency, and from its dependence on indigenous forces. This is the reverse of the Syrian case, where it is the insurgents who are dependent on foreign mercenaries. It then notes,

"The paradox of guerrilla war is that it is easier to defeat militarily once the guerrilla force has matured into a more advanced, and therefore more vulnerable, entity. However, by the time it has evolved, the likelihood is that the political situation has deteriorated sufficiently that even heavy attrition will be overcome through massive recruitment within the disaffected population."

The key to victory for Syria then is to engage the invader militarily without alienating the population through excessive collateral damage. Being an indigenous entity, the Syrian government has more possibilities, such as using pretended defectors to infiltrate insurgent units.

In terms of military tactics, there should be alternatives to shelling one's own buildings. The counterinsurgents should try to hold the high ground, stationing sharpshooters on roofs. I believe the government does try to use this tactic, as well as to organize local defense militias. It should also be possible to lay siege to terrorist nests. Cordon them, starve them or smoke them out, or storm them during their hours of sleep. In other words, commando or SWAT operations -- Special Weapons and Tactics. Terrorist nests should be surrounded, with no possibility of escape, rendering the "run" in hit and run inoperative. Then, when they run out of ammunition, they can be easily mopped up.

Organizing militias carries its own problems of reliability, plus the Goebbelsian global media is sure to employ their Big Lie about brutal killings by "shabiha" brigades. However, when they have no facts to distort, they simply fabricate them from whole cloth, so Syria can't be deterred in its choice of tactics by that.

What if some SAA units were to start wearing civilian clothes and pretending to be rebels? With the necessary precautions to avoid friendly fire, of course. Some rebels dressed up in army uniforms were arrested recently for planning to carry out false-flag atrocities, http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=564561&l=a4329f3fe6&id=110113882437314 . The government is doing the right thing by setting up check points.

Another American viewpoint on the Iraq war: "Mao set out the guerrilla's viewpoint 80 years ago: 'The enemy wants to fight a short war, but we simply will not let him.'" I do get the impression that the Syrian government is striving for a quick, decisive victory. That might well be the right thing to do, but I hope they are also building a long-term strategy. When I see buildings collapse, I wonder.

This report notes that guerrillas ordinarily lack level-headedness and tenacity, and require professional organizers to make them combat-ready. From this viewpoint, Syria's tactic to inflict heavy casualties quickly may help crush their morale. However, the report (Ch. 3) goes on to note that UW involves long-term planning and coordination.

This report should be studied in developing counter-insurgency tactics. For example, it notes that guerrillas need safe havens, such as international borders. It is imperative for Syria to secure its borders to deny supplies and reinforcements from getting in.

The operation against Syria is now in the sixth phase of launching the attack on the state. It involves attacks on high-value targets and seizing "critical national infrastructure, for very limited periods of time." Recent examples were attacks on radio stations, and assassination of top security leaders.

The literature on counter-insurgency discusses the problems of suppression of an indigenous resistance by a foreign occupying power. The book on how a nation state can defeat a synthetic insurgency created by that foreign power has probably not yet been written. The important thing is that Syria should recognize this is a new and unique situation, and search for innovative approaches to exploit its own strengths and the terrorists' weaknesses.

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Note (Aug 5): I'm grateful to Oksana Boyko of Russia Today for supplying information about SAA shelling practices from an eyewitness perspective. The SAA is taking care to avoid injury to civilians, shelling buildings held by insurgents after ordinary residents have fled. In one infamous example, an Austrian newspaper photoshopped a picture of a refugee family over a background of damaged buildings, to make it appear people were leaving after their homes were destroyed.
I have uploaded a plain text version of the Unconventional Warfare Manual here for the convenience of researchers wishing to quote passages.

Aug 3.UPDATE on CHEMICAL WEAPONS FALSE FLAG RISK

The war on Syria is being waged on the cheap by USUK, and a false-flag at the megabucks Olympics carnival would be a blow to the British and US economies.

The tracks are leading in a different direction - a false flag by the Foreign Subversive Army in Syria itself. The US has supplied both chemical weapons and gas masks to their death squads, as reported today by Syrian Girl Partisan in a short video . She shows a photo of FSA unpacking gas masks, which are the US type, not Russian, and thus not from Syria. The plot is for the FSA to use poison gas in neighborhoods and then claim the Syrian government used the gas offensively. The US would thus cook up an intervention pretext with another Weapons of Mass Deception recipe like the "Let them eat yellow-cake" lies against Iraq.

Syrian Girl cites a Russia Today story from June 10, "Syrian Rebels aim to use chemical weapons, blame Damascus." For some weeks top Western officials have been scripting the background music, sanctimoniously feigning concern that Syria might lose control of its chemical weapons stocks. Just today at the UN, the "Israeli am-bastard-or" spewed the venom that "a regime that cuts the throats of children today will be prepared to gas them tomorrow" -- hyping the Big Lie of the brutal Syrian regime. Israel's Debka file and the Telegraph reported that "free Libya" is sharing chemical weapons with the Libyan "insurgents" in Syria. Syrian Girl reports here that the US gave chemical weapons to one of their client tribes during the invasion of Libya to use against another tribe that supported Qaddafi.
She emphasizes that if Syria does have chemical weapons, they will never be used on its own people. They would only be used against foreign attack, or as a deterrent against Israel's nuke stockpile

Paul Joseph Watson wrote on July 31, "We are now clearly entering a new phase in the propaganda war with regard to Syria, heralded by the NATO-aligned establishment now using the presence of Al-Qaeda fighters in the country, many of whom were airlifted into Syria by NATO powers, as a justification to launch a wider military assault." How do they keep track of which side they are on?

At the same time, videos of repulsive madmen and murderers screeching Allahu Akbar are a great bonus for Zionism, as they put Islam to shame even among Muslims. Especially blasphemous were the cries of "God is Great" after lining up bloody, beaten middle-aged prisoners against a wall in Aleppo and shredding them with a torrent of bullets. Pro-Syrian bloggers on Twitter reported that the clan has since got revenge and wiped out a contingent of Fanatical Sectarian Assassins. The media will of course label the clan as "shabiha."

Watson also relayed reports that an Israeli attack on Iran may be imminent. The fight for Syria could be a prelude to taking out Iran.
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One of the Global Goebbels Media Big Lies of the Day today was that the Filthy Swine Anarchists had seized the Aleppo Citadel, but pro-Syrian bloggers produced clips of a quiet day in the city, and reports that FSA vermin have been routed from many positions. FSA propaganda relayed by the McClatchy report claimed these were tactical retreats after inflicting disproportionate damage. The term "tactical retreat" was greeted by a rash of jokes on Twitter.

A video rogues gallery of foreign fighters, mainly Libyan NATO mercenaries, has now been supplied with English subtitles by Syrian Truth, which has an excellent facebook page . A recent photo there is labeled "Repentant Qabbani: Armed Terrorists Shoot Demonstrators to Accuse Syrian Army," from SANA, the Syrian Arab News Agency. This story was one of several posted to a Reuters blog today but later taken down by the agency, claiming they were hacked.

"Mohamad Salim Qabbani, a former collaborator with Mass Media means of lies and fabrications against Syria, narrated last night to Syrian Satellite TV Channel his personal involvement in fabricating news about the ongoing in Syria. Qabbani disclosed the presence of scores of specialized so-called news rooms to invent, edit and fabricate news items and stories to be aired by scores of media outlets like B.B.C., al-Jazeera, France 24, al-Arabyia and others."

His account confirms much of what we already know about FSA-MSM false flag video fakery. The allegedly "brutal" Syrian regime did not punish him, but let him go free. A far cry from the "justice" meted out by the FSA.

It wasn't a hack, though, when the New York Times printed an Op-ed on Aug. 3 noting, "Many who once saw Prez Assad's regime as a kleptocracy now view it as best guarantor of Syria endangered pluralism." The occasion is the ethnic cleansing of Christian communities by fanatical jihadists -- 80,000 are now homeless in Homs. In June, the Vatican voiced concern over the expulsion of Christians from Qusayr. "Christian" Zionists in the US power structure take no notice, and blithely continue to worship their devil or their dollar, of course.

Some other pundits voiced mild protests over the alliance with the Al-Ciada destabilization death squads. Security analyst Charles Shoebridge's "The West Should Not Support Syrian Rebels" appeared in the Huffington Post, while the pro-Palestinian commentator Robert Fisk asked, "Has there ever been a Middle Eastern war of such hypocrisy?" in the Independent. Neither of these half-brave souls rose completely above hypocrisy, though, as they shielded themselves behind the mantra of the brutal dicatatorship. Fisk also made an obeisance to the 9/11 myth. How much risk is enough, Mr. Fisk?

With the defeat on the ground in Aleppo, are these timid demurrals any indication the USUK may take a tactical retreat, once a fallback objective of wreaking tens of billions in damage on Syria is achieved? We'll see.

July 30.

The F.SA.S.Today in Syria we had our "SAS in Basra moment," when British death squads were identified among the terrorists of the Foreign Subversive Army. Two Western journalists were captured by a platoon of rebel-rabble, and there was not one single Syrian in the troop of fanatical jihadists. Some spoke with a Birmingham accent. As anyone who knows England knows, foreigners do not acquire a regional accent. These had to be Brits.

We can now state the equation:

FSA = (F)SAS.

(The New York Times muffled the accent issue by noting, "their captors apparently included no Syrian fighters, but instead jihadists from Bangladesh, Britain, Chechnya and Pakistan," so one would assume they were Pakistani Brits.)

IMPORTANT -- TACTICAL ERROR

Oksana Boyko of RT, an independent observer sympathetic to the government, confirmed that the SAA (Syrian Arab Army) do shell their own cities. Although civilians have usually fled by this time, this is still an awful strategic blunder. Innocent civilians are hurt, killed, or lose their homes. Not only will you have to rebuild the destroyed buildings, but it is a huge propaganda gift to the FSA and MSM who are out to bring Syria down. In short, a suicidal mistake.

There have to be more innovative ways to clear terrorists from the neighborhoods. Use tear gas, SWAT team tactics. Occupy the rooftops with sharpshooters. Cordon off areas and starve them out. Any males of fighting age leaving the area as "refugees" could be held for questioning. If foreign then POW, if Syrian, then do background checks to try and found out if FSA or innocent civilian.

Not that this will be all easy. Tony Cartalucci reported on his Landdestroyer blog on July 27 that the mercenaries have smuggled in chemical weapons and gas masks. Probably for double use -- military, and in creating propaganda fakery. It's understandable that troops with tanks and mortars would rather use them than risking their lives at close range.

Still, it is a top priority to stop the shelling. Own-goal attacks give the likes of US Dep't of Offense Secretary Panetta cause to crow , "if they continue this kind of tragic attack on their own people in Aleppo, I think it ultimately will be a nail in Assad's own coffin." I'd sure hate for the doo from the DOO to be true.

Anybody got any ideas how to get the message to the Syrian defense?

July 28, 2012. DEADLY STRAWS IN THE WIND

The Evil Empire has been quieter about Syria the last couple days, even putting out the line "World to Syrians -- fight it out among yourselves." Are they pretending the Empire is giving up, after doing all it can for Syria, but being blocked by three UN vetoes, poor dears?

This act of lying down and playing dead smells very suspicious. Yesterday, on the opening day of the Olympic Games, they chose to hammer on the keynote of alleged Syrian chemical weapons, with a Really Big Lie of Hitlerian Proportions, in a Reuters hit piece, "Analyst: Assad may attack Turkey, Saudi Arabia with chemical weapons." Thanks to Richard Cottrell who provided the link, and the tip that "Reuters political risk analyst Peter Apps" is a Pentagon mole.

Suddenly, somehow, I saw an opening on the chessboard for the Evil Ones, to lunge at their longed-for chance to bomb Syria into dust. A bit as if they have been thinking out loud, or like the moment when you hear your chess opponent swallow hard, to hold back the urge to shout "Eureka, I got you."

And what a smashing breakthrough they have laid the groundwork for. In brief, this is how I tweeted it around.

1. Their plans for a major false flag bombing on the Olympics have been rumbling in their casus belli for over two years. In May 2010, NWO flagship Rockefeller.org published "Scenarios for the Future," envisioning 13,000 killed by a terrorist bombing at the 2012 London Olympics...

2. In Libya last year, US psy-war experts accelerated the government's downfall by taking over the state TV frequency and broadcasting fake footage depicting rebels taking central Tripoli -- an event that did not occur until days later. Thierry Meyssan, Webster Tarpley and soon the Syrian government and pro-government activists have been telling anyone who will listen that such cyber-hijack plans are in place. According to pro-Syrian activists on twitter, an actual takedown of the Syrian News Agency SANA did occur in recent days. That could be a drill for the big one...

Note in context that there is almost no evidence of a spontaneous Syrian "uprising" over the last 15 months. It has been one big phony videomontage purveyed by the MSM, the empire's mainstream media, the great Bakery of Fakery. The Counter-Revolution IS being televised.

3. As for a precedent for blowing things up and then supplying a video of the chosen culprit allegedly taking blame, that already exists in regard to 9/11. Spurious audio and video tapes were distributed by Al Jazeera, purporting to reveal Osama bin Laden taking credit for 9/11 -- the most enormous -- and the most obvious -- false-flag terror act of all time. Qatar-based Al Jazeera is a CIA-MI6 channel...

Last week's bombing attempt to decapitate Syria's top security officials could also fit into the scenario. When the fake Syrian TV report comes up, it might defiantly declare that the Olympics bombing is in revenge for the assassination of top Syrian leaders.

Other pieces on the board that can be brought into play are the bought and paid-for "defectors," real or fake, who for a price will corroborate any lies needed. FSA members, given to feeble-mindedness and fanaticism, could make perfect patsies. Constantly whooping Allah Akbar, they are ripe for martyrdom. It ought to be easy to recruit a few of these pathetic pawns to sacrifice themselves in an attack on the Olympic Games -- they are ready to do anything to get NATO to overthrow Assad.

Thus, the chess pieces are all in place for a blitz strike, a checkmate combination. So I'm asking everyone to pass on this message. If this is their hellish plan, the way to stop it is to blow the whistle beforehand. Spread the word about this combination for catastrophe, to unnerve them -- or even shame them, if sociopaths and psychopaths are capable of knowing shame.

I hope nothing happens after all, and I will be the red-faced one instead. I also hope I haven't given the Devil any ideas, but that's not likely. They have think tanks working full-time dreaming up such dirty deeds. And that seems to be just what they're doing -- creating the conditions to enable such a plan, if that's what the final decision is going to be.

Good to know that Mr Barak is reading this blog attentively and issuing denials! ;-)

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July 28. It's clear the Foreign Subversive Army (FSA) have no intentions of winning in a fair fight. Symbolic actions are only props for war propaganda to pave the way for aerial bombardment to smash Syria.

By FSA we also mean the Fascist Subversive Axis of USA, Al Qaeda, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and MSM the corporatist mainstream media.

July 26. I've been following Aleppo last few days on twitter, and it appears that small bands of FSA (the Foreign Subversive Army) are taking a beating from the SAA (Syrian Arab Army).

BIG LIE FROM THE BBC

The BBC makes it sound like the FSA is in control of the city and the SAA is going to encircle and invade it with heavy weapons, causing a bloodbath, so the citizenry are fleeing in alarm.

This is absurd, as the government is largely in control, so why would they invade their own city? Maybe the West thinks in terms of invasion because that is what they are doing to Syria.

As evidence for their crackpot theory, the BBC show a photo of a pickup truck carrying a mattress. This is supposed to prove people are fleeing the city in fear of the offensive. You’d think refugees would have smaller and more valuable things to take with them than just a mattress!

It is true some have been forced to leave by firefights. Which means, to avoid the FSA who have been killing civilians, according to twitter reports from Aleppo. FSA "activists" on twitter report "big protests" but their videos show quite small ones, biggest a few 100 - remember the pro government rally in October 2011 attracted 1.5 million - about 5,000 times as many. So much for democracy and objective reporting.

If the Syrian army is encircling Aleppo, it would be to keep the FSA from going in and out.

The BBC manage to twist the facts against the government and still pretend to be a little bit objective by putting the ridiculous part about FSA control and government encirclement first. Later they cite two sources who say "the rebels were moving around the city to avoid attacks." In other words the "Free" "Syrian" Army (Foreign Subversive Army) have no control over the city. They are making hit and run attacks, with some of them terrorising civilians, when they are not impersonating civilans to escape the army. This urban guerrilla tactic has obviously been thought out.

Alongside the CIA veterans from Libya and elsewhere, it appears Syrian FSA elements are mostly young hoodlums (petty criminals and dope dealers) who have been recruited by foreign mercenary leaders with lots of money (e.g. $100 - $200 a day) - see excerpts below from Voice of Russia.

What is going on in Aleppo? Aleppo resident Fatima Banauwi, an Aleppo University employee, has agreed to an interview with the Voice of Russia. According to her, the rumors about the battles in the city have been grossly exaggerated. But all the same, it is not safe in Aleppo.

We try not to go out into the streets because it’s unsafe there right now. Some kind of rallies are being held all the time organized by the so-called Free Syrian Army. But there are no locals at those rallies.

Who comes to the rallies then?

Some from Idlib, some from Hama.

Have you seen them yourself?

Yes, they are young, around 15-16. They look very strange, walk with weapons, curse and shoot in the air. Seems like they’re not themselves, either drunk or drugged...

And how do the Syrian defense units operate in the city?

The soldiers probably try to make it so that the local residents don’t get hurt. But the militants shoot wherever, they don’t care who they kill. They even kill children! And then they put horrible pictures of those killed children on the internet and write that they are victims of the regime.

In other cities, including Damascus, the rebels forced citizens out of their homes and occupied their houses…

We’re not leaving our homes! The militants would ransack them. Those people have no education, no faith - they’re savages!

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- eradicate Arab socialism and government for the people, replacing it with a corrupt clique beholden to Wall Street and London bankers
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